Hi,
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Asiri Rathnayake <
asiri.rathnayake(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Devs,
Currently officeimporter application has three levels of style filtering
options:
1. Strict: Remove all the styles presented in the original document except
for those that can be mapped directly into xwiki syntax
2. None: Keep all the styles (no filtering what so ever)
3. Moderate: Only keep those styles without which the output would be
drastically different from the original document (ex: alignments, image
widths etc.)
As you can see the third option (was my idea) is kind of hard to define and
can be confusing to the user as well. The first too options make a lot of
sense to the user and after discussing with vincent I decided to ask for a
vote to remove it.
Plus this is consistent with the officeimporter wysiwyg plugin which only
allows either to keep all the styles or remove everything.
Also, if we decide to remove the moderate filtering option, we can
represent
the options by a checkbox (Filter Styles). Which should be the default
filtering criterion? I'm thinking it should be not to filter any styles so
that the output looks more or less like the original document.
Here's my +1.
+1 for removing "Moderate"
I think the default should be to apply the filter so that the syntax is kept
clean and the overall look consistent with other pages. While it doesn't
matter much if Word documents differ from one another, on a website having
page with different alignments and various colors schemes etc is not really
a good practice.
Thus to me standard should be uniformization, not the opposite.
Guillaume