David Geller wrote:
> No question that this editor is in the early stages, and needs more work 
> and refinement. But I like it's simplicity.  Certainly, if you want a 
> full-featured slick editor that does just about anything, something like 
> xinha  might really fill the bill. But if you want to limit what a user 
> can do to a small, predefined menu so that the snippets created are 
> consistent for use as specific pieces in a larger  master plan, then 
> maybe this more minimalist thing might be better.  Also, one has to look 
> at who will be using the system, and fewer features means, in general, 
> it should be easier to use.

It's also quite simple to trim down the Xinha toolbar to those elements 
you want to include.  Xinha has some neat features (mostly in the form 
of of various plugins), but the core editing experience is also a big 
part of why I like it.  And it also has little things like pretty 
printing your HTML when you go to HTML edit mode (though I believe you 
need a plugin to get it to do that).  That's a "feature" (in that it 
requires code to make that happen), but it's not something that 
complicates the editor.  Or there is a plugin that makes images maintain 
their aspect ratio when you resize them.  That's rather challenging, 
because it's the browser that really handles the resizing but the 
browser does it in a stupid way (totally free form), so you have to work 
hard to fix that.  (Either way you still really need to do server-size 
processing to do a real resize, but so it goes.)

Anyway, I guess my point is just that simple code isn't the same as 
simple UI.

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