I do agree that an online google doc style WYSIWYG markdown solution would be preferable for non technical and then git and markdown for technical would be the ideal solution.
My sense is the markdown/git/render a documentation wiki with mkdocs is mostly solved. The issue is having that easy interface for non-tech folk.
And related to this is the state of WYSIWYG markdown editing.
The Basecamp folks created the very polished Trix rich-text drop-in which is a replacement for TinyMce, which while the standard seems to carry issues.
Basecamp explained the issue with most approaches as such:
> Most WYSIWYG editors are wrappers around HTML’s contenteditable and execCommand APIs, designed by Microsoft to support live editing of web pages in Internet Explorer 5.5, and eventually reverse-engineered and copied by other browsers.
> Because these APIs were never fully specified or documented, and because WYSIWYG HTML editors are enormous in scope, each browser’s implementation has its own set of bugs and quirks, and JavaScript developers are left to resolve the inconsistencies.
> Trix sidesteps these inconsistencies by treating contenteditable as an I/O device: when input makes its way to the editor, Trix converts that input into an editing operation on its internal document model, then re-renders that document back into the editor. This gives Trix complete control over what happens after every keystroke, and avoids the need to use execCommand at all.
Unfortunately Trix does not render markdown so can’t be used in a markdown documentation workflow.
Has anyone seen a decent implementation of WYSIWYG for markdown that has the necessary polish to be non-tech friendly?
I believe Obsidian are using ProseMirror or CodeMirror, the logo is at the bottom of CodeMirror so I assume it is the latter. There was this forum post from one of the Obsidian team a few years back asking about it
I'm technical and I still prefer WYSIWYG for writing documents. I want it to be easy for me to pull in rich content (images, info boxes, column formatting)
It's ok to be technical and not enjoy markdown, heh.
