What about a way in Javascript to edit whatever is selected with the mouse?
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
On 9/14/05, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 14/09/05, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Edward Z. Yang wrote:
> The idea is this: with a combination of
> Javascript and server side tools, it should be feasible to double-click
> any word on a page and then edit that single word. This is especially
> useful for correcting spelling errors that you would be too lazy to
wade
through
an entire section to get to.
I'd prefer if it was a sentence rather than a single word. Sometimes a
grammar fix requires changes to multiple words within a sentence.
Well, here's a really neat idea: how about we let people edit section
by section - that way people can do things like merging sentences too,
and we don't need to worry about defining a sentence. Oh, wait... ;)
On a more serious note, I can see that this might be useful for some
power users, but it would definitely remain off by default to avoid
confusion, and only be turned on by a handful of people, so may not be
worth the development and maintenance time if it required changes to
the core code.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]
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