The next comparison in my “versus” category is about editing text online. There are a lot of CMS out there, most of them have some kind of way to edit html online.
One way is the WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) – Editor. It looks like word in a small window and has features like bold, italic, fonts selection, tables, borders, list, …
Another way is textism. Special tags that will be parsed when you see the page (being used in Backpack, Writeboard).
*text* will be parsed to text
As a tech savvy user I like textism a lot, since I get results very fast in the way I want them. Also nothing really spectacular can happen with it. Every time I use a wysiwyg-editor I don’t exactly know what will happen. Also, I never use more than headings, bold, italics but I still have to wait until the editor will load completely.
I think wysiwyg-editors will dominate for a long time, since few people have to worry about the markup. But as soon textism is used more and people see it’s easy useage they will like it. It’s just simple.