On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Maximilian Doerr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. I'm new here and I wish to help out here as well. I don't have the > full picture of what is being discussed seeing that the e-Mail I tried to > read it too long. From what I understand it that the wiki markup editor is > being replaced with a graphic editor with a completely new markup processor. > My opinion on this is that that is a bad idea because there are millions of > experienced users who are used to working with Wiki-Markup codes. My opinion > on the matter is to have the graphic editor available side by side with the > markup editor being able to choose at will which editor people would like to > edit with. Default preferences can be set. The graphic editor will > translate the page into Wiki-Markup and save. This method will be more > efficient for the programmers saving time and resources. Any thoughts? > That's exactly what we're already doing. Trevor said [1] that "we have no plan or intention to (...) disable markup (plain text) editing".
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