JR WG wrote:
Follow-up...
RE: SM2 Composer Preview mode not activating links, thus not allowing them to
be clicked on to test and/or cause a browser to be automatically opened to the
link.
I. SM2 and Composer Introduction in Workshops
Well, after two Workshops (we give quite a few), I introduced SM2 to a total of
42 users of both fairly neophyte and, we can safely say, intermediate and
advanced users.
To a one, well, with one "wavering", all stated that SM2 Composer Preview mode not activating links
is either a "programming error" or a "bug".
I politely explained how links were expected to be used and tested in SM2
Composer, and received a resounding series of replies that boiled down to:
1. Who would want to do all that work, just to test a link?
2. None of the other HTML editors does it that way, why change it now ?
3. There has to be something wrong in Composer, no matter what the explanation.
4. Any Windows, Mac, and Linux editors and tools seen always activate the links in their
respective "Preview" modes. Ditto for the now old Windows Outlook and Outlook
Express Preview modes.
I humbly agree with the above, maybe all four of the most heard responses.
II. The Acid Test
So, in light of the above, we as a group used three or four common HTML editors and one
dedicated web-design tool, and compared the workload, steps, intuitiveness and time it
took to do simple "link work" in those tools versus SM 2 Composer NOT having
links activated in Preview mode.
Frankly, SM 2 Composer took far more steps to achieve the same results, and
that's a sin. The extra steps and work that not having links active in Preview
is simply not acceptable nor needed to be done that way.
ALL the other editors and tools activate links in their respective Preview
modes, and that activity has long been considered proper and correct activity
or option, for a great many years.
SM2 Composer Preview mode not activating links is NOT correct, and should be
considered an oversight if not a programmer's bug in SM Composer 2.0...and
fixed as soon as prudently possible in a 2.01, or 2.1, providing that a 2.1
would not be too long in forthcoming.
Joe
The Composer component is probably the lowest priority for the volunteer
Take a look at KompoZer:
http://www.kompozer.net/
Does it do what you want it to do?
If so, that is said to be the basis for SM Coposer as of 2.1, if all
goes well.
Lee
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