[OWW-SC] EditTools helper enabled (Greek characters, etc).

[Ilya Sytchev]

Here are some links to info about WYSIWYG editors and MediaWiki:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikiwyg

Also, using character entities (like ° and °) is a standard way 
to include special characters in web pages: 
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/entities.html

Ilya

Jenny Nguyen wrote:
> I agree with Austin in getting a wysiwyg editor. Less intimidating code 
> = more users editing.
> 
> On Nov 13, 2007 12:16 PM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu 
> <mailto:austin at csail.mit.edu>> wrote:
> 
> 
>        I think we should look seriously again at getting a wysiwyg editor
>        for the wiki up. Not only would this make it prettier/easier to
>        edit, but many of these issues could be solved if we have an
>        intermediate layer between the user and the wiki. I have no
>        problem with having people click a button or type degc or whatever
>        as long as the intermediate editor translates that to something
>        universal before it saves it to the page. It can then do the
>        reverse conversion when the user edits the page again.
> 
>     --
>     Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu
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