A WYSIWYG editor doesn't belong in the admin interface. The current editor is more than adequate for the purpose it should be used for -- to allow the administrator to edit posts as necessary. The reasons for allowing admins to post *new* entries from the admin interface are arguable.
It would make much more sense for themes to offer a post editor from the front page if the user's session is active (ie, by checking that the log-in cookie exists and hasn't expired) the way many themes currently offer 'edit'/'nuke' options on comments if the user is an admin. Maybe that's not something that's going to happen right now, but even in the worst case, post editors should be prime candidates for being broken into plugins (once the refactoring work Scott mentioned happens). Anyway, Frederic best of luck to you on this, it's going to be awesome I'm sure. A cleaner admin interface will be great, regardless of whether it includes WYSIWYG support. (BTW, anyone who hasn't checked out the Firefox blogging extension from http://www.performancing.com should -- it's quite nice and unintrusive. I'm not as happy with it as I used to be, because posting with it makes Typo return an error message about not being able to update the categories table...apparently because the some column is marked as unique.) Cheers, Syed > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:typo-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frederic de Villamil > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 7:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [typo] Admin interface complete rebuild > > Scott Laird a écrit : > > On 7/20/06, Wade Menard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:10 +1000, Trejkaz wrote: > >>> Can you not use an external application with WYSIWYG support, to post > to the > >>> blog? That's what the API is for, after all. Might as well throw > away the > >>> API if nobody uses it. > >> A writer is not always at home or at a place where they can use a > >> desktop client when they want to post something, but are always near a > >> web browser. It is really frustrating to use the interface as it is > now, > >> having to do <p>'s and <br>'s or whatever manually. It's not beyond my > >> abilities but it's the last thing I want to deal with when composing an > >> article. I might as well be inserting the entry with phpMyAdmin. > > > > Frankly, if you're inserting <p> and <br> by hand, then you're using > > the wrong text filter. > > > > > > Scott > > Or maybe the text filters were brocken and no one was able to use them > don't you think ? ;-) > > > -- > Frédéric de Villamil > "Quand tu veux chasser une belle fille, il vaut mieux commencer par > draguer sa copine moche" -- précepte de go. > http://t37.net http://fredericdevillamil.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +33 (0)6 62 19 1337 > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
