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
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