* br...@wikimedia.org [Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:35:16 +0000]: > Full wysiwyg has lots of fun problems, mainly because the strategy of > translating between wiki markup and HTML leads to a lot of edge cases > which > ends up breaking things. Folks have been trying to tackle it for years > and > still aren't quite there; Wikia's current work with FCKeditor is pretty > good but still has a lot of things that just don't work... conversion > can > be lossy and the handling of templates, tables, extensions, etc would > lead > to most pages having to be edited in source mode at exactly the times > you > least want to touch the raw markup. > > Instead, we've got the Usability project focusing on things we think we > can really deliver, providing most of what's actually useful about a > wysiwyg environment: > > * modernizing the look, feel, and interaction model (more live, less > post-and-wait) > * getting the scariest parts of the markup out of your face > * providing humane user interfaces for tasks like finding links and > categories, uploading/picking/sizing images, filling out templates, > creating and editing tables > * context-aware editing (an editor that knows what section you're in, > where this link points to and if it exists, what fields this template > needs, etc) > I hope that wikitext syntax highlighting fits to some of these tasks. It was mentioned in the third step of Usability Initiative site. Dmitriy
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