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| WYSIWYG editors have a different approach. They allow you to edit the HTML code directly. But not as raw HTML code, but as WYSIWYG. In concrete terms, this means that rendered HTML is directly manipulated. Since HTML is complex and browsers are actually meant to be display machines, the development of such an editor is already relatively complex, even if one has " | WYSIWYG editors have a different approach. They allow you to edit the HTML code directly. But not as raw HTML code, but as WYSIWYG. In concrete terms, this means that rendered HTML is directly manipulated. Since HTML is complex and browsers are actually meant to be display machines, the development of such an editor is already relatively complex, even if one has " | ||
| - | For wikis there is another hurdle: you want to give experienced users the possibility to continue using Wiki syntax((In fact, some wikis, such as Confluence, have completely abandoned this claim and now only offer a WYSIWYG editor -- content is simply saved as HTML | + | For wikis there is another hurdle: you want to give experienced users the possibility to continue using Wiki syntax((In fact, some wikis, such as Confluence, have completely abandoned this aspiration |
| )). This means there has to be a conversion back and forth between HTML and Wiki syntax. From Wiki syntax to HTML this is simple, the other direction is more complicated: | )). This means there has to be a conversion back and forth between HTML and Wiki syntax. From Wiki syntax to HTML this is simple, the other direction is more complicated: | ||
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