- From: Sander Tekelenburg <tekelenb@euronet.nl>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:15:44 +0100
At 09:29 +0000 UTC, on 2007-02-21, James Graham wrote: [...] > The difficult problem is not to produce an editor that encourages the > use of semantic markup, it is to produce an editor that encourages the > use of semantic markup and would be chosen in preference to e.g. MS > Frontpage or Dreamweaver by the typical WYSIWYG user. It depends on which types of authoring tools you look at. Tools like Dreamweaver are geared more towards design, and thus used by people who care more about looks than about semantics. But within a larger organisation, you're more likely to have a CMS where many different people need to simply enter/edit content, without dealing with presentational aspects. In such situations it would be a benefit if people aren't bothered with having to make design decisions. Just let them enter the content and describe its structure/meaning. (This seems somewhat comparable to databases, where people are forced to enter data in a specific structured form, without having to deal with the underlying magic.) Such an approach can make things easier for both those who enter content and those who are in charge of suggesting a presention of that content. The whole publication process becomes more managable. I think that's a benefit that will be recognised. -- Sander Tekelenburg The Web Repair Initiative: <http://webrepair.org/>
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