Re: [Phpwiki-talk] WYSIWIKI

[Reini U. <rei...@gm...>]

We alread can do this since two yrears. You only have to add
htmlarea3.php and ENABLE_HTMLAREA. There's just nobody who uses it.

Two weeks I started to generalize WYSIWYG and added support for tiny_mce,
but this doesn't work yet.

On 10/19/05, Dan Frankowski <dfr...@cs...> wrote:
> For your fun and enjoyment here is an undergraduate thesis on making
> PhpWiki into a WYSIWIKI:
>
> http://www.tc.umn.edu/~yile0001/thesis.pdf

Thanks for the link.

> I am not necessarily recommending this as a plan of action, but I think
> it's good to be exposed to these ideas. I will say that one of my vocal
> users feels WYSIWIKI (without a save button!) would be a huge win.
> Disclosure: I did not write this thesis, but I did work with Scott on
> other things.
>
> Dan
>
> The short story:
>
> - Markup is hard for some
> - Markup is ambiguous sometimes (e.g., "*happy days*" produces a bullet
> instead of bold)
> - Saving should happen more easily
>
> A trial implementation:
>
> - Bolt a WYSIWIG editor onto the wiki in this case SPAW,
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/spaw
> - Save pages in straight HTML so it is a logical, consistent, powerful
> language
> - Do it in a way so people don't have to hit an "edit" or "save" button
> anymore (!!). It just auto-saves every few seconds (to the same
> revision, so it doesn't create huge numbers of revisions)
>
> Some limitations to be solved, with proposals for solutions for each:
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Reini Urban
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