[OWW-SC] [OWW-Discuss] WYSIWYG editor for Firefox

[John Cumbers]

I do agree that WYSIWYG would be better to encourage new users to OWW,
perhaps we could put some OWW funds behind one of these that we like to help
develop it further (I've not checked them out yet, so maybe one is great
already).
cheers,
John

On 2/1/07, Ilya Sytchev <ilyas at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> FYI, I have a collection of links to WYSIWYG editors which may be
> suitable for Mediawiki:
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Ilya/OpenWetWare#Editors
>
> Ilya
>
> John Cumbers wrote:
> > I'm not actually sure that it makes it easier though, I suppose that
> > large list of buttons looks more like MS Word which most people are used
> > to, to me I found it a bit daunting.. I've just started using
> > http://www.wikispaces.com/ for organising a co-op that I'm in, this has
> > a simple but good WYSIWYG  editor in it and editing is much nicer than
> > wikimedia, mainly cause you don't have to keep re-saving all the time.
> >
> > Perhaps we could try the extension out on new users and see what they
> > think, or old users who have had trouble editing...
> > cheers,
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> > On 1/31/07, * Sri Kosuri* <skosuri at mit.edu <mailto:skosuri at mit.edu>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     The following page describes a browser plugin for Firefox that makes
> >     wikicode more WYSIWYG.
> >
> >     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd
> >
> >     It's a super simple installation process and probably would be
> >     pretty decent for beginners.  Installation instructions can be found
> >     here:
> >     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cacycle/wikEd#Complete_version
> >
> >     I wonder if we could make this a default option for new users.  It
> >     definitely makes it easier for novices to edit.
> >
> >     Sri
> >
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