I am thinking of switching the submission editor from the current WYSIWYG editor to a BBCode editor like the one used in the forum.
The reason is because the WYSIWYG editor generates pretty messy markups, and having used the WYSIWYG editors in Wordpress and Blogger for awhile now, I think this is a common problem, which is why they always provide a WYSIWYG view and a HTML view. A BBCode editor will not have this problem.
Please let me know if you have any serious objections to this move.
Thanks!
Switching submission editor from WYSIWYG to BBCode
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Re: Switching submission editor from WYSIWYG to BBCode
Will this change affect the editor of updates?
Re: Switching submission editor from WYSIWYG to BBCode
Sounds fine. I've had some difficulty with BBcode with regard to continued lists. So for example:
I can fix that in HTML, but how do I fix that in BBcode so the 3rd item doesn't show up again as #1?
- first item
- second item
- third item
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[list=1][*]first item
[*]second item[/list]
short paragraph about the second item
[list=3][*]third item[/list]
Re: Switching submission editor from WYSIWYG to BBCode
I generally feel BBcode would be an upgrade, but then I'm partial to plain text and (any simple) markup... But there will be flaws, as webfork has noted.
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Re: Switching submission editor from WYSIWYG to BBCode
Doesn't this look OK?
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[list=1]
[*]first item
[*]second item
Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item.
[*]third item[/list]
- first item
- second item
Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. Short paragraph about the second item. - third item
Re: Switching submission editor from WYSIWYG to BBCode
Very cool -- thanks. I was actually more concerned about nested lists, but I just used the same formula.
- item 1
- item 2
- substep 1
- substep 2
- item 3
Re: Switching submission editor from WYSIWYG to BBCode
That change would be nice. Thanks to the HotkeyBB extension of Opera, writing BBCode is very fast for me.
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Re: Switching submission editor from WYSIWYG to BBCode
No objections your honor. BBCode is quite good and easy to get into.