[OWW-SC] fyi: wysiwywiki...

[Bill F]

You can switch back and forth between the two formats. Also, you can
tag pages or individual sections/namespaces to use this as the default
editor. Although not done yet, you could also allow it to be set as a
user preference.




On Nov 14, 2007 6:30 PM, Jenny Nguyen <jennytnguyen at gmail.com> wrote:
> That so sooooo cooool!!! I love this! Although I do admit, after typing in
> wiki-code for so long, converting to a completely wysiwyg format is a little
> difficult. It does make the wikicode look strangely formatted too, but I'm
> sure these type of bugs can be tweeked.
>
> Niiiice work Bill. That is really neat.
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> On Nov 14, 2007 5:20 PM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > I've installed a copy of OpenWetWare's data onto a preliminary version
> > of the FCKEdit OpenSource development team's HTML editor/Wikitext
> > editor.
> >
> > This work is NOT a sanctioned activity by the MediaWiki team. The
> > project is run by the FCKEdit folks.
> >
> > Their original integration was not good. With little to no support
> > from the MediaWiki developers, they've already created a great set of
> > features.
> >
> > Here's a pointer to OWW running with FCKEdit:
> >
> > http://www.openwetware.org/fck
> >
> > It looks pretty useful. But there are a slew of problems with it that
> > need to be fixed. Even with this caveat, this is as close to a bona
> > fide WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki as anyone has done to date.
> >
> > This site is a separate database. Any changes made to it will be held
> > in this and not the main database.
> >
> > The HTML table editor built into it is very good. Images are a bit
> > complicated at this point.
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