# 谁会更喜欢标准的WYSIWYG而不是Markdown？

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-would-prefer-a-standard-wysiwyg-to-markdown/31340
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** markdown
**Created:** [2015年七月23日 08:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-would-prefer-a-standard-wysiwyg-to-markdown/31340 "2015-07-23T08:32:42Z")
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### Author: ![purldator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [2015年七月30日 05:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-would-prefer-a-standard-wysiwyg-to-markdown/31340/21 "2015-07-30T05:01:06Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> For our use case it is like killing a fly with a bazooka.

You too? Yeah, I know those feels.

I don’t understand the outright _need_ for a WYSIWYG editor. The preview pane is on my right and I can easily futz and go pedantic-crazy on my markdown formatting just the way I like it.

[I have said elsewhere](http://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/toward-a-better-markdown-tutorial/3178/24) that Markdown adoption boils down to two things: association with the IT crowd and the tenacity against change. AKA, “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” and other cop-outs to say when something does the job but it could be a little bit more (or a lot more) efficient, lightweight, less work to maintain and generally easier in the long run to maintain.

The Medium style is a good option. I prefer how [Stackedit][1] does it:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/6/9695d5ab669b346c758ba70e45f880bcdfccf10c.png) 

Stackedit has the same Markdown buttons as Discourse, but the editing field offers _some_ slight styling so a user knows the Markdown syntax is correct. For **bold** and _italics_ it shows both outright while maintaining the raw Markdown that caused it.

Best of both worlds; a compromise.  
[1]: [http://stackedit.io](http://stackedit.io)

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