Re: Musings on creating an HTML-based WYSIWYG mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Søren Pilgård <fiskomaten@gmail.com> writes:

> The question is if it is worth the effort?  To me the greatest benefit
> of a WYSIWYG editor would be if I could edit in the "finished" website
> eg. sort of like editing the elements in the developer tools of
> chrome/firefox. That means CSS has to be supported, and potentially
> also javascript. If a website is only HTML it is easy enough for me to
> visualize how it is going to look.

You seem to be talking about programming a web site, not writing text?

The vast majority of text out there on the web is produced in a WYSIWYG
editor of some kind or another, for instance the JS-based editor in
Wordpress or any of a number of editors inside other CMS systems.

> Building a WYSIWYG editor in Emacs sounds like a complicated affair
> and I am not sure it is really worth it as editing plain standalone
> HTML is becoming a niche thing. It could be useful for HTML emails
> though!

Editing text for publication is far from a niche thing, and HTML is the
common serialisation format.

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