D Wiki

Yigal Chripun yigal100 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 11:39:56 PDT 2009


BCS wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
I don't like it. it still feels like compiling my message. at least it's 
not like a batch C++ compiler but more like a python interpreter.



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