Re: [PHP] Web page excerpt editor

At 11:19 AM -0400 5/5/08, Eric Butera wrote:
>On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM, tedd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>   FCKEditor and TinyMCE are impressive in what they do, but they produce a
>>  mix of css and html -- that's not good in my book.
>
>This is an interesting idea.  Most clients don't want to see a text
>area to input raw html though.  In the many years I've done this only
>3 people have ever requested it specifically out of hundreds.  You
>might want to look into shoving generated markup through ext/tidy.  It
>might have some options to clean up all that embedded css.  Maybe I'll
>have to look into it later when I have some free time.  I'm tired of
>seeing those mso styles from Word.  ;)

You make a good point -- and I agree with the Word problem. I have 
clients who cut/paste from Word and then wonder why it don't look 
right in their web site?

I have one client who likes using <h1><b><i><br /> tags but doesn't 
know much about html -- plus, he's sloppy (lot's of errors). So, I'm 
not sure how I am going to handle that.

Currently, my CMS for him is completely devoid of him entering any 
html, but that also means I have to program in options for linefeeds, 
bold/italic text, font size, and other such things. It's difficult to 
pin down all the different combinations of those things.

Cheers,

tedd


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