[thelist] Email Newsletters and Stylesheets
Bob Meetin
bobm at dottedi.biz
Tue Jan 12 11:36:02 CST 2010
Sarah Adams wrote:
>> What I am seeing is that the newsletter WYSIWYG program which works with
>> a simple approach is overwhelmed and seems to lose track of how to undo,
>> where undo begins/ends. When I switch to code view I see "apple"
>> specific font stuff, strings of <i> or <br> which the editor does not
>> even use. This makes me think it is coming from copy/paste.
>>
>
> My clients are under *strict* instructions never *ever* to paste
> anything into a WYSIWYG editor from Word, HTML, etc. Only *ever* from
> plain text. You get cruft like this in the background that does untold
> things to your presentation, and worse, it tends to multiply in the
> background each time the content is saved. I've seen it get so bad that
> the WYSIWYG editor couldn't handle the crufty HTML anymore and either
> wouldn't load at all or crashed the browser completely. Not pretty.
>
> (Now if only my clients actually *followed* said instructions, I'd spend
> a lot less time trying to decruftify HTML, and my life would be a lot
> simpler.)
>
Can I multiple "DITTO?" Is that legal? Unfortunately I have found that
some people simply don't understand the concept of plain text and don't
know how to navigate their PC and pull up a plain text editor. Not
being a Mac user and rarely booting up my Windows PC, this ca be a
hair-raising experience and task trying to explain how.
So I adopted a "control" approach. I set up a really simple web-based
form with a textarea and no WYSIWYG enabled. They can use it, save it,
then copy/paste when set.
However you can still sense a level of frustration in the background.
Why can't I (do it my way)?
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