Re: [xwiki-devs] [vote] Apply inline style to the whole word or just the insertion point?

Vincent Massol wrote: > On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> Let's consider the following scenario: >> >> * Edit a new page with the new WYSIWYG editor. >> * Type a word like "ubuntu". >> * Move the caret inside the word like "ubu|ntu". >> * Press the Bold button or type CTRL+B. >> >> Question: What is the expected behavior? >> >> a) Apply the inline style (bold) only to the insertion point. The next >> letters typed will have this style applied. >> b) Apply the inline style (bold) to the word that contains the >> insertion >> point ("ubuntu"). >> >> Note: b) is the current behavior in Open Office and IE. FF behaves >> as in >> a). The behavior currently implemented in the new WYSIWYG editor is >> a). >> >> Also, by choosing b) I avoid the use of the special space character in >> IE (see my previous mail), but I have to re-implement the current >> behavior of the new WYSIWYG. I need around 2 days for it. Of course, >> it >> will work for any inline style like bold, italic etc. >> >> I'm +1 for b) > The third choice is to have a different behavior for FF and IE. > > Since I don't think we need to bold only a portion of word (I can't > think of a real world use case for it), I'd also prefer b)

Definitely. This is what Open Office does. If you are inside a word it bolds that word, otherwise you start typing bold. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs