On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 01:45:32PM -0800, Earl Miles wrote:
cl@isbd.net wrote:
The trouble is not so much that it's particularly difficult to embed links but that what seems (to me at least) to be such a fundamental part of what the web is about has to be done with an add-on of some sort or another.
I'm still confused. You don't need an add-on to use the <a> tag. Yes, you need an add-on to have some spiffy click-and-pick UI to add links into text, but you have to understand that there are a lot of use cases where we might not want a spiffy click-and-pick UI.
I was hoping to avoid HTML by using Drupal (or another CMS), I thought the point of the exercise was to make it easy for non-techie people to enter web content.
Either that or I just don't understand what you're asking. You keep saying that "this is fundamental", but I think it's only fundamental to what you are trying to do in particular, and not necesarily fundamental to the concept in general. A lot of people will have that perspective about some particular feature or other, which is very important to what that person wants...but not necessarily what everyone wants.
Entering links into the body of what you're writing is fairly fundamental to the idea of the web surely.
... and when you've done it you can't really see what the result looks like.
Does the 'Preview' button not work for you?
Probably! :-) I seem to have ended up a long way away from where I came in.