Dangerous Ideas

I like humane text formats like Markdown (which I use for this blog) or Textile for writing things like blogposts. I find that the WYSIWYG editors like FCKeditor or Kupu sometimes don’t generate markup as clean as we’d like. Of course, from a user perspective, a WYSIWYG editor is a lot easier to learn. So it’s been a tough choice, sometimes, to decide what to use. Now it looks like there might be a happy medium! While browsing Open Source Web Design, I saw a link to a new editor called WYMeditor (it takes its name from the last three letters of WYSIWYM – What You See Is What You Mean). It feels like a WYSIWYG editor, but it keeps formatting out of the way so that people can see the markup. It looks like a great idea!