Re: status of editing

Ok, same here. February sounds good. February 14th then? Or do we need a
doodle?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Dave Tapuska <dtapuska@chromium.org> wrote:

> After Feb 13th generally works for me.
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Gary Kačmarčík (Кошмарчик) <
> garykac@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Feb (in general) works for me.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Grisha Lyukshin <glyuk@microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How about some time in February?
>>>
>>>
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>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* johanneswilm@gmail.com <johanneswilm@gmail.com> on behalf of
>>> Johannes Wilm <johannes@fiduswriter.org>
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 3, 2017 4:02:02 PM
>>> *To:* Piotr Koszuliński
>>> *Cc:* public-editing-tf@w3.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: status of editing
>>>
>>> Hey everyone,
>>>
>>> given the current situation, I think we should have a call within the
>>> next next few weeks. How would the week between January 18 and 25 work for
>>> others? If not then, do you have alternative suggestions?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Piotr Koszuliński <
>>> p.koszulinski@cksource.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Johannes,
>>>>
>>>> > * The undo stack is global, which means it's broken for every editor
>>>> we have been able to find on the net, including those managed by all the
>>>> browser maker companies. It would be good if we could figure out how to
>>>> replace the global undo stack for contenteditable with separate undo stacks
>>>> for every contenteditable element (could be an optional setting if this
>>>> works best for Safari, even though no existing editor uses the global
>>>> setting) [3].
>>>>
>>>> It's a very good point that this is broken for everyone. I can
>>>> understand Webkit's team rejecting the proposals to expose the undo
>>>> manager because that would be impossible/hard to integrate with the OS or
>>>> browser. But the truth is that the situation is totally broken already and
>>>> currently every RTE I checked implements its own undo manager, which
>>>> completely ignores what the browser tells it. It's also unacceptable for
>>>> RTE authors to have a global undo stack (we've taught users that each
>>>> editor handles undo separately [1]). Finally, I don't understand how the
>>>> browser's undo stack is supposed to work with RTEs implementing custom data
>>>> models and collaboration features. Ryosuke pointed out [2] that W3C
>>>> "specifically worked with Google Docs team to ensure their undo worked with
>>>> the API", but I don't understand how was that supposed to work. It'd be
>>>> interested to see some PoC or discussions, because it may turn out that the
>>>> proposed Undo Manager API would be acceptable.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It has been pointed out earlier that the Undo Manager API proposal was
>>> too complex for various reasons, but that it it included a way to define
>>> the scope of the undo and that this part could be used to make undo more
>>> local. This may be a good idea, even if it's just a complex way to say that
>>> global undo is never desired anywhere for richtext.
>>>
>>> I came to the same conclusion as you, and found that also Google, Apple
>>> and Microsoft softwares are broken. It's almost not noticeable if one
>>> doesn't know where to look, but just find two different places where there
>>> is text input (for example the search bar and the email composing part in
>>> Gmail). Write a little in one, then click into the second. Type a little
>>> more. Now undo all of it. You'll notice that they're all broken, in all the
>>> browsers and all the OSes. Either the undo/redo is deactivated when it
>>> should be activated, or it doesn't undo when it should.
>>>
>>> It seems that JS editors really only want direct control voer enabling
>>> and disabling the native undo buttons and listen to the beforeinput events
>>> for both of them. But I understand that due to OS restarints, Safari cannot
>>> do this. Instead they seem to argue that one could get a simple undo
>>> manager where JS can manually add items and make the undo scope be local.
>>> This seems to be almost as good, although it will likely create problems
>>> for collaborate editors, when a change of user A mean that the last 7
>>> changes of user B no longer have any meaning.
>>>
>>> The main point here is that we really need to get going with this. This
>>> should be in the interest of all the involved organizations and companies,
>>> as the undo/redo menus are broken for all of them, and have been for a very
>>> long time.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > * There is a large, opverlapping menu on iOS giving formatting
>>>> options. This is problematic for two reasons: 1. It overlaps the texteditor
>>>> 2.
>>>>
>>>> I agree with everything you wrote, but I'd like to add one thing here.
>>>> It's a much broader topic, but we've been researching how we can show our
>>>> own controls on Safari@iOS and it turns to be extremely hard when the
>>>> on-screen keyboard is visible. As far as I understand, Safari implements
>>>> some non-standard viewport mechanics which makes positioning things very
>>>> hard (if not impossible). From what we've seen, it all works as you'd
>>>> except in Chrome@Android.
>>>>
>>>> This means that not only the menu is overlapping with our controls and
>>>> that we can't control it, but we also can't reliably display something on
>>>> the screen when the keyboard is visible. So the situation is broken on 3
>>>> levels.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I believe I saw a long description with images in a report written by a
>>> CKEditor person some months ago. Do you have the link for this?
>>>
>>>
>>>> >  The issue with the non-available features in editors has apparently
>>>> become worse with the "Touch Bar" on Macbook Pro. While Safari always had
>>>> some editing options hidden in an obscure menu that don't seem to work in
>>>> any of the existign editors, some of these formatting options are now more
>>>> prominently placed, which means it will be more obvious when they don't
>>>> work [5].
>>>>
>>>> This is really sad. We've been working to gain more control over the
>>>> editing experience and suddenly a font color picker appears in the "Touch
>>>> Bar". I can even understand bold, italic and lists which are what more than
>>>> 90% RTEs enable (although, not all – see Twitter). But font color doesn't
>>>> appear in any modern editor because it's a non-semantic styling option
>>>> which, in most cases, content authors should not be able to use. Exposing
>>>> features like font color picker in the touch bar moves us back to 00's [4].
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I can see that there are 7 Billion people on this planet and with
>>> so many different writing styles and needs, there is likely also a
>>> community out there that happens to want these features. And having direct
>>> access to some of the richtext editing features right on the keyboard
>>> sounds pretty neat.
>>>
>>> But I must agree with Piotr that this isn't what the main editors
>>> currently are interested in. I wonder: Has Apple considered whether to open
>>> up these various formatting menus (on iOS and macOS) so that the JavaScript
>>> editors can enter their own menu items in there and replace the existing
>>> ones? It seems like this would allow both for you to keep your menus, while
>>> alleviating some of the frustration these editor devs have had when dealing
>>> with Apple products.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://github.com/w3c/editing/issues/150#issuecomment-249815640
>>>> [2] https://github.com/w3c/editing/issues/150#issuecomment-249775255
>>>> [3] https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-design/issues/149
>>>> [4] https://twitter.com/reinmarpl/status/815891250612174848
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Piotrek Koszuliński | CKEditor Lead Developer
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>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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