[development] rich text editor

[Walt Daniels]

It sounds like the prime RTE offender is the ability to paste or more
specifically the ability to paste anything other than plain or the tinyMCE
paste word. All the controls I am aware of generate pretty reasonable code.

Disallowing paste might actually help solve my other issue. If they can't
paste from Word, then they can't paste some document prepared for some other
media and have to think about typing something more in the web idiom.

There are a number of good books/papers on writing for the web, e.g. Jakob
Neilsen.

My posters are mostly staff or volunteers, not the unwashed public who add
comments. So far I haven't allowed these to use RTE.

-----Original Message-----
From: development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Sean Robertson
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:26 PM
To: development at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [development] rich text editor

> Although I have some problems with bad style, I have more severe problems
> with overall writing style which was intended for newspaper publishing
> rather than web publishing. RTE or not does not help this problem at all.
> The bad style I can fix in a few minutes. The bad writing is much harder
and
> in most cases I have to talk with them to find out what message they
really
> want to deliver in the few seconds that it will be looked at.

Care to elaborate on that?  I'd be interested in specific examples as 
well as general guidelines.

As for standards compliance, the reason I care is because non-compliant 
code can really fuck up the display of a web site (I have to fix 
something on www.johnconyers.com nearly every time I visit it because of 
FUBARed comments, etc.).


-- 
Sean Robertson
Web Developer
NGP Software, Inc.
seanr at ngpsoftware.com
(202) 686-9330
http://www.ngpsoftware.com

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