https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101179
--- Comment #11 from [email protected] --- (In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #10) > (In reply to skyhook from comment #9) > > ...It just needs to be dropped. Thanks for reaching out. My final word on this, then, as a user: "What do you use it for?" was asked in 2017. I fell into this because I wanted to proof formatting in my Thunderbird sig's. That was a bit of a surprise in itself, that I had to work with tags. I could trial-and-error with test messages, and didn't require Writer. After I stripped increasing amounts of cruft, I learned all I needed was simple inline formatting like their grey placeholder. I wish detailed formatting was easier in TB but if TB interprets HTML anyway, doesn't it follow to use that functionality for other elements like signatures? I tried but no joy, it's all or nothing WYSIWYG, which is why I'm relating TB to Writer. With Writer, I can save formatting as HTML and monitor it in a browser; faster, easier, and up to date, and I can copy the code something else like a sig. I'm ignorant of the machinations behind save-as formatting, but I'm guessing losing HTML/Web would have some connection to losing the entire format option. At the current level of complexity, I can see why people might hesitate to lose a nice shortcut. Writer might have a place but not as a step towards a full-blown HTML5 editor, that the majority concede is off target and not trivial. I would call the current state somewhere in the middle and failing there, and it could be simplified. After reading the 2015 and the deprecation link, HTML/Web just feels like a pit trap that nobody is willing to fill in even though the war is over. I didn't see any significant pressure not to. Good luck. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
