On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:04:13PM -0800, Earl Miles wrote:
cl@isbd.net wrote:
I think there is a disconnect between these two quotes:
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.
Entering links into the body of what you're writing is fairly fundamental to the idea of the web surely.
Entering links is easy...with HTML. But you want to both have HTML and not have HTML, which is to say you really want HTML lite, or something.
The way Drupal's content entry system is set up, the HTML you need to know to enter content is greatly reduced, but there are a few tags you can't as easily get away from.
Look at the way that SeaMonkey/Mozilla does it, no HTML shows up.
But I think the 'how to insert a link' thing is just a symptom of what I find uncomfortable about Drupal and similar systems. I'm realising (with all the help here among other things) that Drupal isn't really aimed at what I want to do. I don't need dynamic content and I don't need browser based editing.