From: Thomas Fini Hansen <beast@...>
Date: 2004-05-23T20:28:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Instiki markup

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 12:33:00PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> On Sunday, May 23, 2004, 8:53:45 AM, Dave wrote:
> 
> > I'm not bagging Instiki. It's cool. RedCloth, BlueCloth or RDoc are all very
> > well, but.. can Instiki translate between them on-the-fly (i.e. at user
> > request - user A creates the page in RedCloth, but user B prefers
> > BlueCloth...)? When will Instiki have a WYSIWYG editing interface?
> 
> 
> A Wiki with WYSIWYG is something I'd love to see.  Something for
> Flash, perhaps?

Well, could be done tomorrow, problem being that the WYSIWYG controls
that's available generate raw HTML.

As for the translation, it's not exactly a simple problem, you can't
just 'backtranslate' HTML into Textile/Markdown/RDoc.

-- 
Thomas
beast@system-tnt.dk