[OWW-SC] fyi: wysiwywiki...

[Austin Che]

    I agree this is great. And there is a preference option under
    editing to turn on/off the rich text editing and the rich editor
    tab for using it in some namespaces. I see no reason not to turn
    it on by default immediately and let whoever wants to disable it
    manually do so. Only by making it the default will we be able to
    find and iron out all the bugs with it.

    Also, I think the one remaining absolutely critical feature for an
    editor is auto-save. This would probably be a separate extension
    but I would like to see something like the following:     
    When the page is closed without saving (I think javascript can
    detect page close as some websites pop up bunch of things on page
    close), the edited text should automatically be sent to the server
    via an ajax request and stored in a separate table. Upon the next
    time I try to edit the same page if an unsaved edit is there, it
    should either ask me what I want to do or bring up a box with my
    previous edits so I can choose whether I want to restore it. 
    
> 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:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899