Sorry for being unclear: my response was wholly about the 'understand' part. You can't integrate Stack Overflow's editor into your yen web page. I do think that a user can figure it out really quickly (the little formatting buttons above the text area and the simple markup help a lot).
um, well... perhaps i was the one who was being unclear,
since tophwells seemed to have made the same assumption.
so, just to be more specific, even though we are well past
the unofficial expiration-date for interest on this thread,
yes, i absolutely want something that the end-user can grok
_immediately_, because that should really go without saying.
but just as much, i'm thinking of something that a person
-- even an average person, with no special "tech" skills,
but merely a willingness to actually edit .html source --
could quickly understand and adapt for their own purposes.
see more in the response i will write next for tophwells.
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Sorry for being unclear: my response was wholly about the 'understand' part. You can't integrate Stack Overflow's editor into your yen web page. I do think that a user can figure it out really quickly (the little formatting buttons above the text area and the simple markup help a lot).
um, well... perhaps i was the one who was being unclear, since tophwells seemed to have made the same assumption.
so, just to be more specific, even though we are well past the unofficial expiration-date for interest on this thread, yes, i absolutely want something that the end-user can grok _immediately_, because that should really go without saying.
but just as much, i'm thinking of something that a person -- even an average person, with no special "tech" skills, but merely a willingness to actually edit .html source -- could quickly understand and adapt for their own purposes.
see more in the response i will write next for tophwells.
-bowerbird