Ok, I've been 'MetalWebbing' a bit more, and found more probs (I used
the 68k version now, and got no crashes - but I don't think I did any of
the things that should cause it to crash). Here's the list:
- The default colours are always added to a web page.
The default colours for normal text, hyperlink, previously clicked link,
etc. are added to a doc by default. Where can I turn this off?
- Why is there an 'update source' button?
The other way around is much better: if you type some text in the source
window and click on the WYSIWIG window, it updates automatically.
However, if you make some changes in the WYSIWYG window and then modify
the source code and you did not click on the 'update' button, you lose
the changes made in the WYSIWWYG window as soon as you click on it. No
warning, gone are the changes. Luckily it only cost me one paragraph, so
I quickly dumped my short term memory back into the page. Why not have
the source window update automatically when activated, just like the
main window? That way this problem can not occur and you can get rid of
that huge 'refresh source' button.
- I would like to be able to set the TARGET for links.
Say I have a navigation frame and a content frame. Clicking on a link in
the navigation frame will show the corresponding HTML page in the
content frame. To do this, I have to add TARGET="content" to all of
these links manually. Please add this functionality to the edit window.
- The edit window does not show the settings for the currently selected
HTML in the WYSIWIG window.
If I make some links, and scroll the cursor back to a previously edited
link, the edit mode window does not show that link's settings. It still
shows the last edited link's settings.
If I change the font size for a piece of text, it will be applied, but
the edit window will always show '0'. It does not show the font size of
the currently selected text.
- Setting the font size for a piece of text adds two pairs of <FONT
SIZE>, </FONT> items.
So selecting some text and changing the font only once to '+1' results
in
<FONT SIZE="+1"><FONT SIZE="+1">Selected text</FONT></FONT>
- Changing the font size does not remove previous font selection.
Selecting some text, choosing a font size, changing the font size
results in
<FONT SIZE="+1"><FONT SIZE="+1"><FONT SIZE="+2"><FONT
SIZE="+2">Selected text</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT>
- Clicking to the right of a line of text does not place the cursor at
the end of that text line.
It is very tricky to find the end of a text line in the WYSIWIG editor.
Cursor right will wrap around the line, cursor left will go up lines
when start of line is encountered, clicking right of the line does not
seem to do anything. This makes the finding of the end of a line a
cumbersome and time-wasting procedure, where it should be a negligable
effort.
- Using 'clear' from the first menu option clears the HTML code, but not
the file name.
I spend some time changing a page, after which I want to make a new
page. I use the 'clear' option. After some editing, I click 'save',
expecting the program to display a file requester, since this is the
first time I save this document. Alas no, my new page has been
overwritten on the page I was editing previously. Again, this lost some
changes. I had to download the page from my own site and redo the
changes.
And my question:
What does it mean if I create a new page and I get the choice to save
'all path', 'no path' and two other options? I am unsure as to what the
difference is between these options, as the buttons contain an all too
short text and I can not find this in the docs.
Wouter Lamee.
