[pmwiki-users] wysiwyg editor for wiki

Sandy sandy at onebit.ca
Mon Jul 24 13:36:29 CDT 2006


DrFredC.com wrote:

> Perhaps the (best?) option might be to develop a wysiwyg editor that 
> wiki/editors might download (perhaps for free, or a modest price or by 
> webmaster approval) that would allow 'editors' to edit online at their 
> local site using the downloaded webware. 
> 

I can see that working, but not sure how many people would use it.

1. Download program. Install, or maybe it runs via a browser. JavaScript?

2. Online, edit the wiki page. Copy and paste wiki-text into "page 
source" half of the editor.

3. Edit the page with wysiwyg.

4. Save As PmWiki (or Latex, HTML, MyObscureWiki,...). Or just go to the 
"page source" and copy it.

5. Go back online, edit the page. Select all the text, delete it, and 
replace with the wiki text created above.

I'm pretty sure PmWiki does an actual compare of the new and old text, 
so page history won't be affected (except for blank spaces).

Next version, the editor will look after steps 2, 4 and 5. It would 
either open a new PmWiki session with its own password, or piggy-back on 
an existing session.

Final version, when you are online with your favourite browser and click 
Edit, PmWiki checks to see if this program exists. If it does, open this 
program rather than the current online form.

Can't say I'd use the earlier versions much, though. For short stuff I 
code as I go. Longer stuff is done in Word (ugh, converting is painful, 
but I still find it best for super long documents) or simple HTML 
(conversion is simple).

Sandy








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