I’m in love with MSWord
December 9th, 2008
This is not just a fling, but a long lasting relation.
It started years ago. It didn’t occur to me, until I was separated from it a few months ago. Because of company standards, I needed to do all my editing in this fancy wiki thing called ‘Instiki‘. I did try to make it work. I even put up with the weird * and _ syntax (textile). I got sick of it. Searched the net for alternatives and found one guy who had created a wysiwyg editor for instiki. Some mails and ruby hacking later, I got it working the wysiwig way…
It worked reasonably well. Well if you don’t intent to use images, or tables, or lists with more than one level. I found myself editing the html on more than one occasion (per hour that is)
One weekend, I had to write about 15 pages of specifications text. I gave up. I switched back.
This is where this idea to create a word based wiki started.