[bndfc-web-tech] wysiwyg text component

[Jamie Marriott]

Quoting Chris Croome <chris at webarchitects.co.uk>:

 
> Actually it's the HTMl component that this is for... we could make
> buttoms though for the Text component also, wiki's like MediaWiki
> have this, and since it's GPL'ed we could just copy their
> Javascript...

Sounds good. Paul has just demonstrated it to me.
 
> The WYSIWYG editor for the HTML Component in
> 1.8 works in Mozilla on Linux, not only IE... 

Even better! 


Basically, I'm trying to address some concerns expressed by individuals at New
Deal - that people may have problems with having to learn some kind of 'code'
to add content. There's an expectation for something more like Word - you
select the text you want to make bold, click the bold button and the text
changes to bold *there and then in the component._* The MediaWiki type
interface just puts the mark-up in place for you.

I'm not saying this is bad - I personally believe the mark-up is easly and
quicky learnt, and perfectly fine without the buttons. I also have faith that
the New Deal content editors will take to it no problem - I just want to
establish how possible it is to have a text input device on a webpage that can
work like this. My own feeling is that it isn't - that HTML forms _cannot_
support this kind of functionality. I've never seen it done anywhere. If it was
possible, I'd imagine online forums all over the place would be doing it.

Jamie