[thelist] Yahoo! like HTML textarea

[Sam-I-Am]

> heh -- very colourful description, it fits a few people i've known...
> 
> so, um, what kind of html are you interested in, specifically
> 
> i mentioned   a href, strong, em
> 
> anything else on the must-have list?

I think the must have is that it's configurable. But those are good
starters, with 
<br /> and <p></p> (enter and shift+enter) that would cover the basics I
think. 

display dimensions would certainly want to be configurable per instance,
and maybe the element list as well? (so as the page author I could
decide to make H1 available in one content area, but not another.. so I
might see <applet...>
	<param name="elementList" value="a,strong,em,p,br,h2,h3">
</applet>). 

The point for me is that is doesn't try and do everything a real editor
could do. No tables, no background images - just basic text editing. All
that other stuff should be handled by someone who knows what they're
doing. As a basic principle for these things, you allow people to only
create problems they are able to fix themselves. 

If someone wanted to put the framework together I could probably take it
from there. (insert hopeful grin emoticon)

Sam