- From: Andrew Rowls <eternicode@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:07:55 -0400
- To: Jonathan Garbee <jonathan@garbee.me>
- CC: public-webplatform@w3.org
I think it can be done completely client-side (it's just parsing and translating text content), but a hybrid approach (have the server translate for an ajax request, or something) may be more stable. But I'm thinking this is a bit risky. In order to allow a client-side option of editing articles via markdown, you would need a script(s) that was capable of translating *both* wiki-to-markdown (ie, DB to interface) *and* markdown-to-wiki (ie, user input to DB). If there is any discrepancy (read: bugs) between the two translations, you'll get content morphing and potentially content lost in translation. Wiki and markdown are simple enough that this may not be a concern, but I thought I'd bring it up. Andrew On 10/31/2012 05:58 AM, Jonathan Garbee wrote: > Paul mentioned during the teleconference this week that it could be > done client side. I don't think it can completely be done there but > I do think that there is a way to get it done without any extra > confusion. It would basically allow editors to edit in Markdown but > the information saved in the DB would remain MediaWiki markup. > > I don't have the time to write up the idea now, but when I do I will > post it to this ML. > > -Garbee > > On 10/29/2012 2:18 PM, David Bradbury wrote: >> I agree. The last thing I think we want when it comes down to >> maintaining articles is having multiple syntaxes interweaved within >> the same article. Heck, even if mixing syntaxes weren't allowed, >> having to switch between using different markup languages when >> editing different articles would be annoying - Both for regular >> users and new users. >> >> I would be fine with converting to Markdown if needed, but whatever >> the final syntax is, it needs to be consistent. >> >> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Jonathan Garbee >> <jonathan@garbee.me <mailto:jonathan@garbee.me>> wrote: >> >> Bug 19692 [1] is a request for Markdown Syntax to be added as an >> option for editing pages. >> >> I personally don't see where this would come in handy unless we >> started to use markdown as the primary syntax. This would just add >> one more way to do content which would just add to confusion on >> markup. >> >> What are your thoughts? >> >> Thanks, -Garbee >> >> [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19692 >> >> >
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