- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:07:01 +0900
Le 4 d?c. 2006 ? 14:48, Mike Schinkel a ?crit : >>> Consequently these systems implement some sort of >>> markdown format that's simpler and allows users to >>> enter data in plain text or increasingly with a WYSIWYG >>> editor. All that's needed is for these systems to generate >>> valid markup, and we're done. Mot users don;t need to >>> know any details of this. > > Not all use markdown, many allow HTML, especially blogs. And the > more I've > thought about it, the more I think markdown might be a bad idea > (future blog > post planned on that topic, once I've crystalized my full thoughts > on the > matter.) Give the possibility that the "textarea" of a form to trigger an editor, (A kind of setenv $EDITOR "editorname")(potentially wysiwyg). and/or implement a real wysiwyg editor for forms in browsers (which sounds a bit silly when you really think about it) There will be less nightmare of hand code editing. > P.S. If markdown IS the answer, I think the W3C needs to define a > standard > for such markdown. There are too many competiting implementations for > userrs to learn today. hundreds, each developers implementing a Wiki is starting with the WikiWikiWeb syntax and then add stuff. If there is an abstract model of "Web Documents", then the rest is just a question of serialization. What Sam Ruby is doing in fact in the discussion. http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/HtmlVsXhtml - HTML - XHTML - textish format -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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