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[BCS]

Hello Yigal,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Hello Yigal,
>> 
>>> BCS wrote:
>>> 
>>>> One major *advantage* of wikies is that the UI is a browser. If I
>>>> need to install anything (even a plugin, and lets pretend I don't
>>>> have flash already) I'm not going to be contributing anything.
>>>> 
>>> no. wikies are text based and have *NO* UI.
>>> 
>> No, I understand how wikies work, you use a web browser to edit text
>> content that is then rendered as HTML. The UI is implemented via a
>> web server and a web browser. Saying it has no UI is nonsensical as
>> clearly the system interfaces with a user so it /must/ have a UI of
>> some kind.
>> 
> I meant a graphical UI,

Yup, that sounds reasonable. OTOH I wouldn't use a non-web based GUI for 
a wiki.

> as in a rich text editor. :)

have you seen the editor used by stackoverflow.com? It has realtime preview 
and even code highlighting.