Seeing as Wiki’s are the poster child for inclusive, simple-to-edit, immediate web publishing isn’t it rather user-hostile to have line breaks ignored by default?
Does anyone actually find this behaviour useful?
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That'll be me, Harry Brignull. I'm User Experience Consultant at Madgex in Brighton (UK). My work involves making experiences by blending User Research, Interaction Design and UCD process consultancy. In the past few years I've consulted for Nokia, British Airways, Vodafone, O2, AOL and many others.
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Simple to edit? It surprises me that so few wikis out there have decent wysiwyg editors. Compared to today’s blogs, wikis are still so raw. Although expert wiki users might protest at a wysiwyg editor, it would be straightfoward to merge wikitext style input (expert users) with the wysiwyg interface (novice users)- In Microsoft Word, try tying *hello*. Word will remove the stars and make “hello” bold. Please both crowds at once.
I’m perplexed at Kathy being a target when on the list of top people to go after, I doubt she’d be in the first 50 pages (not discrediting her work, she’s brilliant, and gentle, but not the first I’d think would have to deal with this