On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea <
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
> >>
> >
> > As a user I would expect the behaviour in a) (personal opinion). But if
> b)
> > is currently used existing editors and it also let's us go around a hacky
> > solution. I would say +0 for b).
> >
>
> Why would you expect a)? It doesn't seem intuitive to me. It does seem a
> bit consistent,
Yes that's what I thought. Anyway, I'm not an experienced user. I thought
it's the way most editors behave but it seems like I'm wrong.
+1 fro b).
Thanks.
- Asiri
> since if you're outside the word and click bold, then
> you start writing bold, without anything already existing being turned
> into bold. But intuitive, no. I expect (and both MS Word and OO Writer
> do this) that when I click inside a word and press the B button, that
> word becomes bold. I don't (almost) ever need or want to start typing
> bold inside a word. If I want part of the word to be bold, I write the
> full word, select the part that I want bold, and click the B button.
> Isn't this what everybody would do?
>
> To Marius and the rest of the WYSIWYG team, the final goal is that the
> editor behaves as the user expects, not as the browser is coded. We
> should stick to what desktop products do as much as possible, unless
> their behavior strongly contradicts what we think the user expects. Of
> course, having a feature working sooner is more important than waiting
> for all the browser misbehaviors to be corrected. Working feature first,
> bug workaround afterwards (only other people's bugs, as we should not
> produce bugs in our code in the first place).
>
> --
> Sergiu Dumitriu
> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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