Thomas Dalton wrote: >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.
You are absolutely right. I was just saying something additional: that if VisualEditor isn't targeting power users, then the dev team shouldn't build a powerful editing UI for templates. Instead they should worry about preserving an article's template transclusions from damage by non-aware users. To add to your words: the visual editor should be able to: - Parse, render, and write 100% of wikitext. - Produce minimal, correct wikitext for new edits. - Exactly preserve any other (unchanged) wikitext that it loads & saves; otherwise version diffs will show changes that the author didn't explicitly make. (Prime offender: the ASP.NET editor in Visual Studio.NET, which used to completely rewrite its contents.) DanB _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
