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"People often claim there will be some kind magic "visual editor" that can produce the same level of visually styled web pages as an actual programmer," The wr
by gerdesj 5y ago
"People often claim there will be some kind magic "visual editor" that can produce the same level of visually styled web pages as an actual programmer,"
The wrong bit there is the word "programmer".
I'm 52 and own an IT consultancy. I've used Wordperfect 4 onwards, Wordstar, manual typewriters, MS Word from 2.0 onwards, Quark Express, Word Star, Open Office, Libre Office and many many many more. I'm very familiar with the notions of leading where you put lead shims in between words to pretty things up and avoid widows and orphans and kerning for a similar reason but between letters (or is it vv, can't remember - don't care) I also run a fair few Mediawikis and I note you picked on the phrase "Visual Editor".
The content should be king, the way you display it should always be second but it should be fairly decent. In my opinion.
FWIW: VE on mediawikis, in my opinion, is quite an enabler.