While I don't object to it, at that point I start to wonder what the difference is between that and the WYSIWYG view. (Also, implementing that is, I suspect, much, *much* harder: in most important respects, it *is* essentially implementing a new version of the WYSIWYG editor.)
Yeah, I would never, ever suggest it for a smaller site like Dreamwidth. It was actually way ahead of its time when it came out, and probably some of the reason SquareSpace is a bit pricey for what was, up until recently, merely another CMS (I see they've added domain name services in more recent times).
But the difference between editing on page and using WYSIWG is vast, though I suppose purely psychological, for me: I don't tend to catch a lot of errors and rewrites I could do until things are published. There's something about that after-post adrenaline rush I get that suddenly triggers the "Oh, wait, I completely fubured that" or "Wow, this entire piece sucks" mechanism in my brain that slept until just that moment.
My writing flow, in other words, is not normal, which has caused me to run into problems, for instance, when writing or replying to comments, including on DW itself. I'm not proud of this, but the point is, my posting and replying (writing) flows are pretty much the same, but with comments, I don't even get what *looks like* an on-page preview (as opposed to posting top-level entries, which does let you have that), so no adrenaline rush to help clear my addled brain and help the words along. :)
SquareSpace, with their on-page writing/editing, would let me think - in some irrational corner of my brain...and my brain can get so fuzzy even I wonder how it can function, sometimes - that the piece I was writing was *already up*, which made the adrenaline rush kick in a lot faster and earlier, and might have produced better work as a result (but this was so many years ago, right after SquareSpace became a thing, that I can't exactly recall what I wrote under their CMS now). But, basically, that's the difference, at least for me.
While I can believe that's true in some implementations, there's no reason why that should be generally true. Doing a dynamic keystroke-by-keystroke preview is going to add some load, sure, but a simple preview pane (either side-by-side or lightbox) shouldn't add much; that just suggests bad implementation...
Agreed. But if even a big name player like Wordpress.com can produce a less than ideal implementation, then I'd want to know that anything similar DW does will be designed with performance at the forefront, because there's nothing worse IMO while trying to think what to write/how to word it than the page slowing up and being distracting, or having to wait for things to load or become usable.
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Yeah, I would never, ever suggest it for a smaller site like Dreamwidth. It was actually way ahead of its time when it came out, and probably some of the reason SquareSpace is a bit pricey for what was, up until recently, merely another CMS (I see they've added domain name services in more recent times).
But the difference between editing on page and using WYSIWG is vast, though I suppose purely psychological, for me: I don't tend to catch a lot of errors and rewrites I could do until things are published. There's something about that after-post adrenaline rush I get that suddenly triggers the "Oh, wait, I completely fubured that" or "Wow, this entire piece sucks" mechanism in my brain that slept until just that moment.
My writing flow, in other words, is not normal, which has caused me to run into problems, for instance, when writing or replying to comments, including on DW itself. I'm not proud of this, but the point is, my posting and replying (writing) flows are pretty much the same, but with comments, I don't even get what *looks like* an on-page preview (as opposed to posting top-level entries, which does let you have that), so no adrenaline rush to help clear my addled brain and help the words along. :)
SquareSpace, with their on-page writing/editing, would let me think - in some irrational corner of my brain...and my brain can get so fuzzy even I wonder how it can function, sometimes - that the piece I was writing was *already up*, which made the adrenaline rush kick in a lot faster and earlier, and might have produced better work as a result (but this was so many years ago, right after SquareSpace became a thing, that I can't exactly recall what I wrote under their CMS now). But, basically, that's the difference, at least for me.
While I can believe that's true in some implementations, there's no reason why that should be generally true. Doing a dynamic keystroke-by-keystroke preview is going to add some load, sure, but a simple preview pane (either side-by-side or lightbox) shouldn't add much; that just suggests bad implementation...
Agreed. But if even a big name player like Wordpress.com can produce a less than ideal implementation, then I'd want to know that anything similar DW does will be designed with performance at the forefront, because there's nothing worse IMO while trying to think what to write/how to word it than the page slowing up and being distracting, or having to wait for things to load or become usable.