User talk:Martin

User Interface - edit box

Currently at a Wiki page one clicks “edit”, then waits for the edit page to pop up. The fact is the edit page does not look like the prior page. One makes the edit, then clicks “save”. Then one waits, and often reads the final page to see if it “looks right” – and sometimes notices a minor typo – then goes back to repeat the process. This is really not an efficient process. A more efficient process is to be looking at the page, and never have its format change (as when the edit page pops up), and be able to start typing, and “what you see is what stays on this page”. Why can’t the systems assume that the typed content will be saved – for if that was not the intend, why would one begin typing in the first place? If one makes a mistake and does not want their text saved, then should come the command mode to erase the just typed contents, or perhaps to then highlight the content one does not want saved, and click “delete”. For my brain type the process described above is more intuitive and faster.