Daniel Dekany escribi?:
> Friday, May 25, 2007, 6:09:51 PM, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> ...
>> After I stopped working on Grif's code, I used Grif a lot to write some
>> documentation.
>>
>> This editor:
>> * was *truly* WYSIWYG.
>> * was intended to be used by *secretaries* (after quite a bit of
>> training!) and therefore, worked at a very abstract level compared to XXE.
>>
>> After a lot of brainstorming, we, XMLmind, decided that, in the case of
>> structured documents, "less is more" and we decided to do the opposite
>> of Grif.
>
> Let me be bit picky here. I think it's not that typical case of "less
> is more" with XXE. Its that it has a different approach, and it should
> be remain true to that, and part of that is not supporting whatever
> wild formatting. But I hope you (XXE developers) don't want to apply
> the "less is more" approach in other senses.
>
>> I saying this just to stress the fact that the design of XXE is not
>> naive.
>
> I think with XXE there is a serious danger that users expect a usual
> WYSIWYG thing, and so they "don't get it", and will be disappointed.
> Thus, I belive it would be important for XXE to communicate this idea
> of XXE to new users at well visible place.
To my knowledge, WYSIWYG is a very adequate paradigm for proofreading or
browsing a document. But for editing, the adequate paradigm is WYSIWYM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM
The big advantage of editors like XXE is that they implement this
paradigm in a near WYSIWYG styled view, instead of in an obstrusive tree
view.
Hope this clarify things a litte more.
--
Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado
