I recently got very disappointed by any markup language i was using for my django forum, wiki and blog - basically because BBCode and Markdown are all easy to write but very limiting, while (X)HTML is powerful, but hard to write by hand. (Actually I found it easier to write HTML than to work around bbcode limitations for another part of my blog (which is still not finished, but not due to html ))

So when someone on the SCT forum started to ask why I was using markdown in the wiki I sparked a small discussion about the pros/cons of WYSIWYG vs. editing markup by hand. I even carried it over to another thread.

So what are the pros and cons of WYSIWYG?

• +: Very userfriendly (if done right)
  
• +: Very powerful (you can add custom features, like wiki links, inserting attachments as images, resizing/alt texts of images, etc.)
  
• +: You don't need to learn a new markup language for every forum, wiki or blog
  
• -: Security might be a problem - you need to validate (X)HTML very carefully to avoid XSS
  
• -: Some might want to edit pages offline, or manage them in a text based version control system.
  
• -: Diffs are not that straight forward
  
• -: Hard to do "right" (WYSIWYG is not that simple and might require extra work for every browser - and you need extensions for your forum/wiki/blog features)
  

So - does anyone have other pros/cons for wysiwyg vs. markup editing? any experiences?

I once had the problem of having no ideas when i needed a programming project. Somehow this changed significantly ..

Things i would LOVE to code, but have no time:

• 38 issues for SCT
  
• BBCode WYSIWYG editor including support for attaching images (i NEED this one ASAP)
  
• Treez - Changelog manager and (what's more important for me right now) code review tool - (Yes, I still know no useful alternative)
  
• Billmonk application for the iphone - I am too lazy to enter all my bills, I need this one. I already started coding, but still far from anything useful.
  
• ShelfShare - I very much need to improve this one - improve performance, add integration into facebook, etc.
  
• Let alone finishishing my personal "blog" of april's surfing action
  

Any advice on how to prioritize these would be appreciated (and no.. there is no money in any of these projects )

I just helped to launch another forum based on SCT: The Django Forum. As last time with http://django-resource.de we were able to automatically migrate all forum categories, users and posts without any hitches.

It seems visitors to my website http://sct.sphene.net are not really representative. Or did I miss that Internet Explorer is now on 4th place behind Firefox, Opera AND Safari

I just realized that Sphene Community Tools (My currently most active private project implementing a django forum and wiki application) is already one year in development. This finally removes the "Short source control history" - warning on it's Ohloh project page.