[thelist] Yahoo! like HTML textarea
Sam-I-Am
sam at sam-i-am.com
Mon Aug 6 16:56:38 CDT 2001
> 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
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