November 19, 2009 by
I was going to write a post about how terrible WYSIWYG editors are, and how everyone needs to stop using them, but I actually found an article that says pretty much exactly what I would have said.
Before you read it though, I should probably define a few terms:
- WYSIWYG
- What You See Is What You Get (pronounced whizzy-whig) is a type of text field that allows you to format text to be displayed on a web page, without having to actually know HTML. If you’ve ever written an e-mail using a service like Gmail, or written a blog post using something like WordPress or Blogger, than you’ve used a WYSIWYG editor.
- Textile
- If HTML is a markup language, Textile is a markdown language. Instead of writing HTML markup, or using a WYSIWYG editor to write the markup for you, you can use Textile, which is essentially just a bunch of simple shortcuts that get converted to HTML. So, for example, instead of writing
<strong>bold</strong>to make something bold, you can just wrap the word inasterisks, like so:*bold*. - RedCloth
- RedCloth is simply a gem (an extension for Ruby) that allows you to easily convert Textile to HTML.
Alright, now you’re ready to read the article.
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