WYSIWYG-Talk

Summary: Talk page for WYSIWYG.

FidelioEspoir 21 fev 2020 Just a few remarks. (you can rewrite this in good english ;-)) To make editing easy for my readers , I add new guieditbuttons In my web site (http://www.toposcopie.fr) all the code for description is proposed with near 30/40 buttons like a palette for a painter.All the modification is in the config.php $GUIButtons [$bttnX] = array($ArrayCount++, '', '', '', $GUIButtonX);. Perhaps it would be simpler to have a SiteAdmin.Page to write the new buttons ? But I'm not informatician. My solution is do-it-yourself ! ;-) Thanks for all !


>And I think that the fact that other web-editing frameworks continue to use symbolic markup over WYSIWYG editing is a good indication of just how difficult the task really is. -Pm

While not disagreeing with the difficulty of the task, would like to point out that Wordpress includes WYSIWYG editor (which generally does not work for markup added by plugins, unless those plugins explicitly provide a hook for the WYSIWYG editor), and Wikipedia finally launched their WYSIWYG editor. The latter, I think, both shows the difficulty of the task (it took a loooooong time), but also the desirability of the editor.

Michael Paulukonis January 14, 2014, at 08:16 AM

The problem with comparing PmWiki with "others" is that in the case of the "others" they don't use markup in pages, they use HTML. So in reality they have a WYSIWYG around HTML (though they translate a type of markup into HTML). PmWiki doesn't do this, but instead makes it very easy to extend the markup language and even change how it's interpreted since page content is not stored as HTML (like the "others"). It's a key difference.

So, you either greatly greatly restrict what you can do in PmWiki, or you learn to love how it works.

ccox

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