Vincent Massol wrote: > The third option is to have a different behavior in IE, i.e. bold the > whole word at the caret location when you hit bold. Especially if all > existing wysiwyg browsers do this. > > The proposed solution sounds a bit hackish and complex.
Hackish yes, complex no. > > I don't have a better opinion for now. I talked with Marta and she noticed that Open Office has the same behavior as IE: the whole word becomes bold and not just the insertion point, the only exception being when the caret is not inside a word. I'll raise a vote on this. Thanks, Marius > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> To explain the issue lets consider the following scenario: >> >> * Edit a new page with the new WYSIWYG editor. >> * Type "foobar" and place the caret as in "foo|bar", where the pipe >> represents the caret. >> * Press the Bold button or type CRTL+B in order to start typing bold >> text at the current insertion point. >> * At this moment, the HTML should be "foo<strong>|</strong>bar" where >> the pipe represents the caret. >> >> The Problem >> >> In Mozilla it's easy to place the caret as suggested. In IE it's >> impossible (this weekend I tried all sort of things and search >> desperately on Google..). What I can easily do in IE is either >> "foo|<strong></strong>bar" or "foo<strong></strong>|bar". The >> workaround >> that I found is to use a special space symbol >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner inside the strong >> tag >> (before, it had an empty text node inside) and place the caret just >> after this special space symbol. >> >> PROs: >> * When the use will type the text will be bold. >> >> CONs: >> * Although the space character is not visible you have to jump over it >> while navigating with the arrow keys. >> * Although we can remove these special symbols before converting to >> wiki >> syntax, the user will have them when copy&pasting. >> >> I'm in favor of using this special space symbol. WDYT? >> >> Thanks, >> Marius. >> >> P.S.: I need your opinion ASAP, thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
