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

[Ilya Sytchev]

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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