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  • Adrexia started following the problem "Custom HTML - Where has it gone?" in PBwiki.

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    Andrew's reply to "Is the Classic Editor supported in PBwiki 2.0?" was just promoted to the most useful! Adrexia and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

    Andrew
    I've used your site on and off over a few years for note-taking for my Open University courses here in the UK. So I was interested to take a look at your new V2 Beta. Initial impressions:
    * Looks nice
    * Mmmmmmmmmm, like that side bar
    * Nice editor

    So how do I switch into Wiki markup for edits? Oh, I can't :-(

    As far as I can tell, you have created an editor for HTML - I can even switch into HTML mode and type HTML direct.

    So - what's my problem?

    Well - one of the points of a Wiki is to provide a quick and simple mark-up language. If I wanted to write HTML, I would write HTML. I could just use your editor, but:
    * how do I do this on the train when I have no connection?
    * how do I draft out the outline of a series of pages when I can't type in the links for pages to be created later?
    * where is the CamelCase that allowed me to link pages in the fastest way I have ever seen?
    * how, if my site is public, do I stop people putting malicious code on my pages, if I need them to be editable?

    You could have produced a nice editor - but why not an editor for Wiki Markup, rather than HTML?

    I think this is one step forward, but two large steps back.
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    Adrexia replied on April 02, 2008 02:01 to the question "Is the Classic Editor supported in PBwiki 2.0?" in PBwiki:

    Adrexia
    I miss WikiStyle too. WYSIWYG is the devil. It's so much more complicated and time consuming than just typing what you want on to the page. I don't get the point.