[Building Sakai] Rwiki

[John Norman]

A slightly different tack to consider (posted as an individual and  
early adopter of wiki) is that the use cases where WYSIWYG is  
important will be handled by TinyMCE-based page authoring in Sakai 3.  
However, we don't yet know whether there will be residual demand for  
"pure" wiki functionality (i.e. using wiki syntax). Perhaps a good way  
forward might be to consider introducing the page authoring approach  
in the "content authoring on Sakai 2" demo (http://3akai.sakaiproject.org/dev/ 
  for now) as an *additional* new tool within Sakai 2. The way the  
technology is presented to users might need to be changed, but in  
principle it would allow flexible page authoring and conventional wiki  
to exist side by side and to be used according to the use case/ 
requirements.

An advantage of this approach would be smoothing the path from 2 to 3.

Cambridge could support such an effort with advice and guidance, but  
would not be able to commit the resource to make it happen.

John

On 17 Jul 2009, at 11:48, Adam Marshall wrote:

>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-
> | bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Knoop, Peter
> | Sent: 16 July 2009 18:42
> | To: Botimer, Noah; Charlie Macchia
> | Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org; 'Ian Boston'
> | Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Rwiki
> |
> | I took Charlie's and Adam's comments to be about adding wysiwyg  
> editing
> | capabilities to rwiki in general, not specifically about adding
> | FCKeditor to rwiki.  However, given the usage of FCKeditor  
> elsewhere in
> | Sakai, that seems like an important avenue to consider.
>
> Agree.
>
> |
> | I'm not sure if you're speaking here as Noah Botimer, Sakai  
> Developer
> | at Michigan, or as Noah Botimer, Sakai Product Council Member,  
> however,
> | given the sizable interest in seeing this capability in 2.6 (and the
> | subsequent disappoint when it didn't make it), it seems premature to
> | downplay this as a possible near-term goal.  (Especially if  
> Charlie and
> | Adam are expressing an interest in helping work on it!)
>
> I'm afraid I wasn't we don't have sufficient javaScript expertise  
> here.
> Sorry!
>
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