Re: wysiwyg editors

Interesting stuff!

> IE : '<strong>bold</strong>'
> Moz - (default): '<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bold</span>'

<snip> 

> For me this kind of throws a wet blanket over the whole rich-text editing 
> thing. Play with the examples in both clients and compare the HTML output.

Ugh. Yup. Well. Cross-browser rich-text editing is a pretty new thing -
I'm still impressed it works at all. 

> Unless you do not use the default markup and instead make your own, which 
> HTMLArea lets you do quite easily.

Perhaps we could make some stock alternate toolbars available easily
from within the inline constructor? At least that'd save recoding the
workarounds each time. Or even suggest the replacements to the
maintainers? 
 
> I've used the editor on my company's Intranet but I've limited it to 
> Headings/bold/italic and lists. Anything else puts too much crap in with 
> the data and it'd mean I'd loose control of the presentation of the 
> content (i.e. definately don't want font tags or even inline font styles 
> in body text).

Yes, that's why I want to see the option to have a CSS-style selector in
the toolbar - which HTMLArea does. But that stuff has got to be up to
the implementor.

> I've even started to think the wiki style of markup is a better solution! 

Noooo! <struggles to suppress rant on the Evil Cult Of Wiki />

OK, you're a strong +1 on HTMLArea. Anyone else?

Matt


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