Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > Hi devs, > > We have to decide upon the proper behavior of the Tab key in the new > WYSIWYG editor. Open Office has the following behavior: > > A) If the caret is inside a table cell then jump to the next one (or > previous one with Shift). > > B) If the caret is at the beginning of a list item then indent that item > (or outdent with Shift). By indent I mean make it a subitem of the > previous list item. > > C) Otherwise insert a Tab. The Tab doesn't always have the same width; > it depends on the top ruler and on the caret position. Shift+Tab is ignored. > > I'm +1 for A) and B) > > Regarding C), it's difficult to have the same behavior. What we can do is: > > C1) Insert spaces (say 4); we would have to use non-breaking spaces of > course. > > C2) Insert just one (breaking) space to discourage users from using the > tab key to layout text. > > I'm +0 for C1) and +0.5 for C2).
+1 for A) and B) -0 for C1). Imagine users could indent everything at the start of every line with tabs to have a paragraph indented 4 spaces away from the left. We definitely should not allow that. Which makes me think about the degree of wysiwyg-ness of what we're building since the width of the editor is never preserved / guaranteed for the view. Indeed users should not rely on that but we need to make sure somehow that they are well aware of it. there is also : C3) do nothing and: C4) default browser behaviour -- move focus to next form field (which is happening now for all situations) and also: C5) if the cursor is at the beginning of a paragraph it should indent the first line in the paragraph (the CSS way), but I am pretty sure that's too much trouble. +0 for C2) +0.5 for C3) and C4). Happy coding, Anca Luca > > I need your vote asap. > > Thanks, > Marius > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
