On Jan 20, 2004, at 00:00, Ulrich Fuchs wrote:
The main
change is that in browsers which do not support changing a
text
selection or inserting text at the cursor (Opera and Konqueror), you
now
Far better this way. With my Konqueror it works.
(It uses this same behavior in Safari.)
I don't have M$ Explorer. However, I think (as far
as I have read)
that there
the buttons insert things like '''bold text''' at the cursor
position.
What
happens, if text is selected? Does it gets overwritten with '''bold
text'''
or does it result in '''selected text'''? (Because the latter is
what a
newbie user would expect, from his/her experiences with standard word
processing applications) Is that implemented/implementable?
Yes; if text is selected when you click the button, the selected text
is surrounded with the ''' markup (or whatever). It's actually kind of
neat. :)
In Mozilla this works but there is a bug in Mozilla that causes the
textarea to scroll up to the top if there is more text than fits at
once. This is going to be extremely confusing for a newbie; if there's
no workaround I've been suggesting to Erik that we just have Mozilla
fall back to the other behavior (with the secondary box that shows the
markup so you can look at it or cut-n-paste).
It's really _meant_ for novice users, so having it completely off by
default misses the point. :) But we don't want it to be frustrating,
either.
I've also found it to be somewhat problematic in Internet Explorer for
Mac if the browser window is smallish, the focus changes cause things
to scroll around strangely. I'm not sure what's the best course of
action there.
Any other Mac users, can you try editing on
test.wikipedia.org and let
me know what works / doesn't work / goes wacky and crazy?
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)