On 14 February 2014 15:40, Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> wrote: > On 02/14/2014 10:39 PM, Gabriel Wicke wrote: > >> VisualEditor is an HTML editor and doesn't know about wikitext. >> > > That single sentence explains so much. > If you would have told me two years ago, > I could have said "wrong path, this will fail". > (Of course, many would have protested and > refused to listen to sound advice, but now > we know the outcome.) >
Thanks for your timely input. :-) We pointed out some of the (dozens of) reasons why a client-side implementation of the parser wasn't a workable solution when we made the choice to take this route; sorry you didn't notice that at the time. What do you predict we will be using five > years from now, in 2019? Plain old wikitext, > VisualEditor, or some other path? For new out-of-the-box MediaWiki installs? Almost certainly HTML. For existing legacy MediaWiki sites with sane quantities of extensions? Probably HTML for most. For WMF's currently-hosted sites? Probably wikitext, but it's possible that we'll have switched. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
