[Radiant] WYSIWY Get plugin

[Todd Baur]

Sorry, I have to disagree with you completely. The non-technical  
person is non-technical because they choose not to or their cognitive  
patterns align them to excel in other ways. You can't force either to  
change. And why can't a website be a toy? Relax! I appreciate your  
dedication to the craft, but not everyone is at your level. Remember,  
lots of people still use Word to create sites. (I'm not arguing the  
validity of such a practice, but realize this is what is going on in  
the world with non-technical people).

Secondly, the majority of humans are monkey-see monkey-do. The  
industry wouldn't be where it is today without WYSIWYG, why I bet the  
last time you used Dreamweaver you didn't code 100% in code view.  
Imagine how slowly computers would have progressed without seeing  
what you get? The value of the computer in business exponentially  
grew when the GUI made usage easy!

I am working on this very rapidly, and it will be a plugin. I'm not  
looking to take over the code or something else wacky, just  
contribute something I feel others may want to use. It's a PLUGIN and  
it will be available for beta by the end of the month.
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Todd Baur
todd at tackletechnology.org
858-752-1459
11814 Westview Parkway
Unit #176
San Diego, CA 92126



On Oct 6, 2006, at 7:13 PM, radiant-request at lists.radiantcms.org wrote:

> No, for the non-technical person they really need to become more  
> technical.
> This isn't 1999 when websites were toys - today we care something  
> about
> semantics and accessibility. I think we should stop saying "here is  
> your
> text box, enter content in it the way it looks good to you".
>
> I've introduced Textile markup to many (Markdown, because of indenting
> semantics, is not my choice for textboxes) young people and they  
> never had
> any trouble getting it. As for the ignorant older people who just  
> want to
> put stuff online without caring about anything you tell them, I  
> wouldn't
> even let them near textboxes.

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