| RobLa-WMF added a comment. |
In T107595#2667512, @daniel wrote:I think little of that complexity should be exposed to users. We probably don't want editors to freely mix and match slots - rather, we want an integrated experience for editing and display. Ideally editors should neither know nor care about slots.
I think I agree with you, but you say this in a way that sounds dangerous.
The risk: the more that our data formats become a complex mystery that is only understood by a handful of people, the fewer people that will trust the systems we produce.
It's true that ideally, editors should not need to understand the underlying formats. We should create systems that are easy for both humans and computers to understand and manipulate. If we do this, we'll provide the ability to create user interfaces that behave intuitively. Advanced editors will learn the underlying model, and will be able to intuitively grasp the nature of the inevitable problems we'll have with the systems we build. They will also understand how to explain those problems to less advanced editors.
However, the more we try to hide the underlying storage format, the less that the most active editors will trust the systems we produce. Let's make sure that we come up with a system that is easy to explain what a revision is at the byte level.
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