Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Asiri Rathnayake < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Devs, >> >> Currently officeimporter application has three levels of style filtering >> options: >> >> 1. Strict: Remove all the styles presented in the original document except >> for those that can be mapped directly into xwiki syntax >> >> 2. None: Keep all the styles (no filtering what so ever) >> >> 3. Moderate: Only keep those styles without which the output would be >> drastically different from the original document (ex: alignments, image >> widths etc.) >> >> As you can see the third option (was my idea) is kind of hard to define and >> can be confusing to the user as well. The first too options make a lot of >> sense to the user and after discussing with vincent I decided to ask for a >> vote to remove it. >> >> Plus this is consistent with the officeimporter wysiwyg plugin which only >> allows either to keep all the styles or remove everything. >> >> Also, if we decide to remove the moderate filtering option, we can >> represent >> the options by a checkbox (Filter Styles). Which should be the default >> filtering criterion? I'm thinking it should be not to filter any styles so >> that the output looks more or less like the original document. >> >> Here's my +1. >> > +1 for removing "Moderate" > I think the default should be to apply the filter so that the syntax is kept > clean and the overall look consistent with other pages. While it doesn't > matter much if Word documents differ from one another, on a website having > page with different alignments and various colors schemes etc is not really > a good practice. > Thus to me standard should be uniformization, not the opposite. > Guillaume >
+1 (for removal and for Guillaume's argument) -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
