> > The issue is that, even if power users don't use the new interface they > still need to be able to use the old one to edit the same articles. If the > wikitext created by the visual editor is unnecessarily complicated and > unreadable (like the html produced by ms frontpage, for instance) then > there is problem. Similarly, the visual editor needs to be able to parse > even quite strangely written wikitext.
^^ This, 100 times over :) Writing a visual editor is painfully hard. I've just finished one for a current project after we evaluated what felt like a billion pre-existing alternatives. Without fail they all suffered in that their output left a * lot* to be desired. The key thing to remember is that the output should be indistinguishable from what a power editor would have written. And cover all the edge cases (because with millions of articles we have lots of those). However; this looks an interesting start. I like the simplicity. Tom _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
