In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Glazman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have added yesterday evening to www.mozilla.org a new document [1]
> about basic CSS support in Composer. It describes a proposal in four
> steps. All comments, suggestions and even flames welcome.
>
> Followup is in newsgroup netscape.public.mozilla.editor only.
>
> [1] http://www.mozilla.org/editor/adding-css-to-editor.html
(This post is all about the Web page authoring tool, not the mail
editor.)
The design outlined in that document downplays these important features
of HTML+CSS:
1) Reusing external <link>ed style sheets
2) Applying structure to text and then applying style to structure (as
opposed to using <span style="..."> tags.)
I think using <link>ed styles should be the primary way with embedded
<style> as a secondary option. Instead of being able to apply style a
particular selection resulting in non-structural documents with lots of
<span>s, I'd like to see a real style-for-the-structure editor to
accompany a real structure-for-the-text editor.
Something like this:
V Block Styles
Base Body Styles <body>
> Margins and Borders
> Background properties
V Text properites
Font Family [Reader's preferred font |V]
Font Style [Normal |V]
Font Weight [Normal |V]
Text Decoration [None |V]
Font Size [ ][Reader's preferred size |V]
Text Align [Left |V]
Text Indent [ 0][em|V]
Normal Paragraph <p>
> Margins and Borders
> Background properties
V Text properites
Font Family [Inherit (Reader's preferred font) |V]
Font Style [Inherit (Normal) |V]
Font Weight [Inherit (Normal) |V]
Text Decoration [Inherit (None) |V]
Font Size [ ][Inherit (Reader's preferred size) |V]
Text Align [Inherit (Left) |V]
Text Indent [ 1][em|V]
First Level Heading <h1>
V Margins and Borders
Margins
Top [ 1][em|V]
Bottom [0.4][em|V]
Left [ 0][em|V]
Right [ 0][em|V]
Padding
Top [ 1][px|V]
Bottom [ 1][px|V]
Left [ 1][px|V]
Right [ 1][px|V]
Border
Color [#FF0000] (Choose...)
Style [None |V]
Top [ 1][px|V]
Bottom [ 1][px|V]
Left [ 1][px|V]
Right [ 1][px|V]
V Background properties
Color [None (transparent) |V]
Image [None ] (Choose...)
Repeat
Attachment
V Text properites
Font Family [Reader's preferred sans-serif |V]
Font Style [Inherit (Normal) |V]
Font Weight [Bold |V]
Text Decoration [Inherit (None) |V]
Font Size [200][% of the body font size |V]
Text Align [Inherit (Left) |V]
Text Indent [ 0][em|V]
Custom class [warning]
> Margins and Borders
> Background properties
> Text properites
...
> Inline Styles
> Table styles
> Custom selectors
Note:
No physical units--just px, em and %
I believe editing structure-related styles explicitly in a separate
window is actually easier than editing them with text selections. (Case
study: MS Word)
--
Henri Sivonen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/
