[chandler-users] Richt-text on notes field

[Procter A.]

Rich text editors or wysiwyg editors are pretty bad and on mac they
have been pretty horrible.

Reformatted text has to be the new way google redcloth and bluecloth
( textile and markdown) seem to be nice.

Please no rich text editor !

Adam



On 17 Sep 2008, at 09:55, "Delphine Ménard" <notafishz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 00:18, Robert Schöftner <rmu at unfoo.net> wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> Grant Baillie schrieb:
>>>  a. Create a new field with HTML content, and store the plain-text
>>> equivalent in the old
>>>     field for Web UI usage.
>>>
>>>  b. Store the HTML in the old field, and let web users view and
>>> update the raw HTML.
>>>
>>>  c. Choose either a or b, and implement HTML notes in the Web UI. I
>>> understand there are
>>>     javascripty rich text editor widgets out there, but I don't
>>> really know this area very
>>>     well.
>>
>> wouldn't it be possible to use something like reStructured text [1]
>> to
>> generate html from the text? and perhaps add a checkbox somewhere to
>> switch between "source" view and "rendered" view? no additional field
>> would be needed, the text would be equally useful on clients that
>> don't
>> support html and it's perhaps easier to input too.
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText
>
> For what it's worth, I'm a big enemy of rich text "just like that"'.
> I like rich text with a meaning, so I'd rather see something like
> ReStructuredText indeed so that structure is preferred over "niceness"
> in the notes field.
>
> But then, I'm a wiki freak.
>
>
> Delphine
>
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