Re: WYSIWYG vs. WYSIWYM and semantic usage?

  Hi!

Hmmm... here comes my late answer again, hope you still remember what we we=
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tailking about... ;-)

On Monday 28 November 2005 09:43, Christian Stocker wrote:
> On 25.11.2005 23:23 Uhr, Simon R=F6nnqvist wrote:
> > On Friday 25 November 2005 10:13, Christian Stocker wrote:
> >>BXE shows what you mean in a manner that it will look like what you
> >>will get on the webpage. if you reuse the content on a different palce
> >>(PDA, PDF, whatever), it will of course look differently, but I think
> >>the users can abstract that.
> >
> >   My fear (as I mentioned earlier) is that people would be tempted to
> > choose the semantic marking according to looks instead of meaning.
>
> Just give it meaningful names, remove bold/etc, and they can't do that :)

  Well, I'm actually intending to do that.
But still there might be a chance that the author would notice certain kind=
s=20
of behaviour (or let's say looks) when using a certain kind of tag, and=20
thereby start to misuse those tags.

On the other hand, if the user really wants to he/she can still see the fin=
al=20
behaviour of certain markings from the actual web page he/she is editing=20
anyways. But at least not showing the final looks in the editor could make=
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the idea that he/she isn't supposed to be editing looks, only semantics and=
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content a bit clearer.

> >>How would a WYSIWYM Editor look like in your opinion? On the web, I mean
> >> :)
> >
> >   Kind of like LyX. Or let's say kind of like BXE without showing how t=
he
> > page would look, but instead just indicating the semantics. I think the=
re
> > should be some kinds of web-based WYSIWYM:s around, but I haven't check=
ed
> > them out yet.
>
> Maybe the tag mode (without wysiwyg formatting) would be something for
> you then. It has to be improved (it doesn't do live updates right now),
> but that could be a way to what you want

  Well I'd be interested in trying it out.
How do I do that?

With what purpose in mind did you develop this?

  cheers, Simon
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