[Building Sakai] Rwiki

[Noah Botimer]

I have to offer some dissent here. Adding WYSIWYG support is a "whole  
ball of wax". I am not arguing that people want some rich  
collaborative editing; I am just challenging that "add FCKeditor to  
rWiki" is the first/best conclusion to make. There are lots of bits  
to untangle once the first pass of integration is done, probably  
months of real usage/mistakes/refinement.

I would voice support for the three items that Savitha identified and  
add a few of my own. These are simple things that I think add  
cognitive load and mechanical frustration for people:

  1. The viewed styles should match up with more traditional Sakai  
formatting.

  2. There should be an easy way to browse the site pages and insert  
a link.

  3. The editor box should be in a fixed-width font for alignment and  
character discernment.

Each of these six is quite straightforward and would reduce usage  
barriers significantly. Resolving them would improve the experience  
while preserving the spirit and models in place. The bigger question  
of rich text collaborative editing may end up with FCKeditor in  
rWiki, but I have trouble thinking of that as the highest priority,  
given the wealth of options in late 2009.

A detail note: The style change would be most invasive, but it would  
be easy to offer options: wholesale update, default to updated style  
with page opt-out, default to current style with page opt-in, or  
maintain current style.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Jul 16, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Charlie Macchia wrote:

> On 7/16/09 8:01 AM, "Adam Marshall" <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
>
>> Fixing the wysiwyg editor has got to be #1 priority for most people.
>>
>> Adam
>
> I couldn't agree more, making the wysiwyg even half as usable as  
> FCK editor
> would really help Sakai as a whole: maybe we should form a team?
>
> Charlie
>
>
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