User blog comment:Najevi/Should a wiki editor focus on content or style or education or all 3/@comment-1589654-20100101201004

That's a great idea. People learn quickly when there's immediate feedback on the results of their actions.

A good rich text editor for WYSIWYG is a complex rather than a simple problem and has to encapsulate in its program logic all the various ways the conversion can go sideways. A task which grows when the markup language is either large or can undergo changes (both of which are unfortunately true for html/css/mediawiki markup). Because of this complexity it's a strong temptation on the part of the RTE creators to stop short of a complete solution and be satisfied with a "good enough" implementation. Unfortunately this just trades one set of problems for a different set of problems (as so many of us have found to our chagrin with the current version of the Wikia RTE).