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I've found "developers", people who work extensively with plain text and mark up languages, mostly hate WYSIWYG. Because it just gets in the way of / works diff
by njharman 7y ago
I've found "developers", people who work extensively with plain text and mark up languages, mostly hate WYSIWYG. Because it just gets in the way of / works differently than the skills/knowledge they already have.
I presume people who primarily work in Word/OpenOffice/Whatever Apples thing is, feel the opposite.
If your customers include both, UI is basically impossible to get right for everyone.
- saxonww 7y agoI have two responses to this: 1. I used to administer a mediawiki instance for R&D at a mid-size enterprise software company. It was used by perhaps 300 people. Many, many developers disliked wikitext and wanted a visual editor and/or word-to-wiki converter. Some people just prefer wysiwyg over markup. 2. If your customers include a meaningful population of both, _include both_. Make the 'friendly' editor the default, with a preference to use the old (presumably stable) editor. Obviously this doesn't work for all features, but it seems like the text entry box in the Slack app is one that could be easily configured this way (maybe not?).
- bradstewart 7y agoWhy wouldn't they make this optional? Then everybody gets we they want.
- b3kart 7y agoExactly. How hard can that be. It’s almost like they’re on a mission to piss off their technical users.