On Oct 27, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Anca Paula Luca wrote:
Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
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)
of what I understood you _can_ bold only a portion of a word: type the whole word, select your piece of it and click bold. The pb is only if you'd like to start typing bold in the middle of a word (in which case you'd need to position inside, click bold and start typing).
In that case I'm even more in favor of b). Thanks -Vincent
(independently of the problem of implementing a) for IE).
Just to be sure, if I type the following: * Type "hello" * Hit space * click on bold * type "world"
Will "world" be in bold?
Definitely. This is what Open Office does. If you are inside a word it bolds that word, otherwise you start typing bold.
Thanks -Vincent