Henrik Gedenryd <Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se> writes:

> ...and you shouldn't have to hack raw html--heck, you shouldn't ever
> have to do that.  WYSIWYG originated with Smalltalk after all :-)
> (No Swiki criticism in that.)

Even if no criticism, you have interesting things to say to the
swiki. Ward's original WikiWiki did not allow hacking raw html. I
think Mark would have preferred not to; I think he added this only
because his students wanted it.

I don't really like it as well as I like Wards original simple
scheme. That had no rules to learn, nothing to get in the way of just
typing what I have to say onto the page. But I'm far from sure that
I'm right and Mark's students wrong. I didn't grow up formatting my
papers in html. Maybe if I had, the html ornaments on pages wouldn't
distract me when I was trying to compose; perhaps I would add angle
brackets where needed as easily as I add punctuation now. If any of
the students who initially complained are still reading this list, I'd
be interested to read their opinions.

-- 
Stan