I agree that this is a great way of fixing this problem (and I'll most likely use it for DrupalMU). I agree with Boris that the live preview should be displayed above the submit button because we don't display the preview button anymore. Wim Moshe Weitzman wrote:
On Feb 4, 2008 9:12 AM, catch <catch56@googlemail.com> wrote:
Gabor's blog post is useful, input formats are definitely the real issue with this.
Input formats are important, but not really for the reasons that Gabor mentioned. Consider the comment field on groups.drupal.org. I recently added live preview to this textarea and am quite pleased with the results. For example, start typing into a comment into http://groups.drupal.org/node/8140. Note the Preview below. Users can author in Markdown (or HTML) and receive immediate feedback about their presentation. It is WYSIWYG, but he intelligence is on the server, not the client. I don't think a client will ever have have markdown.php nor will it understand all our filters for inserting images, inserting Views, etc. IMO, the best bet is a tag insertion/filter insertion module on the client and leave the WYSIYG to live.module.