its interesting to note that now the FCK+mediawiki is now a pure extension to MediaWiki and that there is now the option to toggle on/off the rich editor .. with the default being off.
brent. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 06:49 -0700, Steve Foerster wrote: > > Me too, but I continue to believe that this won't happen the way we > want until WikiEducator has WYSIWYG editing. My day job is training > university faculty members to use technology, and there's no way most > of mine will learn wiki code; they use PBWiki instead. > > Steve -- Good progress has been made on the rich text editing front, most > notably the FCK editor extension (http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/ ). > > We're planning to investigate and research this alternative seriously in > the coming months and also look at the possibilities of securing some > external funding for further development work on the rich text editor. For > example, pull-down menus for inserting WE pedagogical templates. We are > certainly a lot closer today in being able to implement RTE than we were a > year ago. We'll need to go through proper analysis, testing etc --- all of > which is doable. > > On a personal note - I'm optimistic that we will get rich text editing > sorted -- obviously, there is a funding contingency here but all good > projects get funded :-). > > You're right WYSIWYG editing will increase participation from newbies and > I'd like to see us moving this agenda forward. > > Watch this space .... > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
