"What You See Is What You Get" editing is user-friendly. But you can often have ...
Frustrating problems with WYSIWYG online editing
Being able to see how the document looks while editing it is clearly a good thing. But in practice it is far from ideal.
WYSIWYG is supposed to help you build your page exactly the way that you want
That looks just perfect!
But in fact with WYSIWYG, it's sometimes hard to produce the specific layout and style that you want.
I can't take out the bold style? ...I will need to re-type it all!
WYSIWYG also relies on JavaScript or Flash so may have security vulnerabilities.
...Where is my site? What happened?
What are the alternatives to WYSIWYG editing?
Meet this alternative: Wiki syntax
When editing with wiki syntax, the author inputs the styling code along with the text.
Features | WYSIWYG | Tiki Syntax
|
| Easy to learn | YES and NO | Small learning curve
|
| Extensive browser support | NO | YES |
| Readable source by default | NO | YES |
| Secure | NO | YES |
| Flexibly extensible | NO | YES |
| Future-proof | NO | YES |
| Fast page load | NO | YES |
| Mobile-friendly | NO | YES |
| See Wysiwyg Problems and Solutions for details. | ||
There is at least one web software platform that lets users choose how they want to edit content - they can choose page-by-page, or they can choose even for individual sections of a page.
This platform is Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Tiki is a full-featured web application that provides features including wiki pages, blogs, forums, galleries, CMS articles, and flexible, powerful database input and display.
Tiki page editing possibilities
All pages wiki syntax
All pages WYSIWYG
Some pages wiki syntax
Some pages WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG page sections
in wiki syntax pages