On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Anca Paula Luca
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

+1 for A) and B)

>>
>> 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.
>>
>> C1) Insert spaces (say 4); we would have to use non-breaking spaces of
>> course.

+0.5.

>> C2) Insert just one (breaking) space to discourage users from using the
>> tab key to layout text.

-0.

> C3) do nothing

+0.

> C4) default browser behaviour -- move focus to next form field (which is
> happening now for all situations)

-1 since this is what we're trying to avoid.

> 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, this seems not noobproof enough to me.

Thanks,
JV.
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