On 06/25/2012 09:24 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi guys,
Some time back we started improving title handling, I'd like that we continue
this and I'm proposing some further improvements below:
* Make the title field contain wiki syntax (same as the content field) instead
of just velocity
it's interesting if we have an i18n macro... for the rest of the
formatting I'm not sure... I don't know if formatting in titles is used
that often
* Make the title field a textarea so that we can have more than 1 line
big +1, not for the lines, but for the size (255 becomes quickly too small)
* Display a textarea of 1 line initially (to preserve space) but enlarge the
textarea visibility by several line on the first Enter keypress in the field
more or less, I think we should keep it simple for the titles: no
wysiwyg editor, no textarea, just as it was until now, except that longer.
* Stop trying to extract title content from the doc content
* Have a backward compat param to still support the old mode, but have it off
by default in 4.2/4.3
This is interesting too, but I don't have a strong opinion, although not
extracting titles anymore would be wonderful :) .
<side>
* Introduce a {{i18n}} macro (or {{translate}}, or …)
</side>
+1
I think we should also have a discussion about the purpose of the title
(now that we can put anything in document name) and how titles should be
used by default by the platform, but I need to clear the ideas a bit in
my head before starting it.
Thanks,
Anca
Advantages:
* Same as the content field - More consistency
* More power since we use wiki syntax and we can use any script language
* Removes the WTF symptom when a user edits a page having velocity script in
the title since they'll see it displayed in WYSIWYG mode with the title content
evaluated
* Removes the uncertainty about title extraction (for ex if some macro
generates headings) but still allow it if it's really needed - Since the user
will be able to write scripts in the title textarea and those scripts can
extract stuff from the doc content if they really need it
* We'll be able to add a l18n macro and thus display the title translations
nicely in the wysiwyg editor
WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
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