- From: Maurice <maurice@thymeonline.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 10:30:40 -0400
- To: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
On 5/3/07 9:31 AM, "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > On Thu, 03 May 2007 15:21:58 +0200, Patrick H. Lauke > <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote: >>> Forcing the use of a styled span is bad because styles are dangerous. >>> It'd be akin to forcing someone to use Javascript to the same end. No, >>> if a user typing into a WYSIWYG editor hits the "b" button, it should >>> output a <b> tag. >> >> And if a user hits the "centered text alignment" button, should it also >> wrap a nice <center> around it? And if they want to change font, should >> it just stick a <font> element in the code? > > I don't see why not. If they want presentational markup, let them have it. > Maskering it in some <span style> doesn't make it any better. Of course, > it would be nice to have something "better" than a WYSIWYG editor, but so > far work in that area hasn't progressed much as I understand it. Actually Adobe Indesign has made a lot of progress in my opinion. Especially in their use of 'styles'. Character styles, paragraph styles, table styles, cell styles, and object styles. What they do is, basically you create a pdf with a couple dozen or a couple hundred pages and you use these indesign style sheet things to control the appearance of common elements across all those hundreds of pages instead of having to go textbox to textbox highlighting things individually and messing with the font menu. This comes in really useful for end of year reports that usually have more than 3 people authoring the sections. Typically they use MSWord and if they stick to some preset styles in Word then those styles can be changed when the msword file is imported into the book and the author can continue to edit the word file to update the book. It's a real time saver. I think quark and microsoft word have something similar as well. MSWord also calls it 'Styles'. I showed some office works last year how they could save dozens of hours on their reports by using styles. They had this boss who constantly had the most INSANE font change requests regarding headings and underlined or bolded text. -- :: thyme online ltd :: po box cb13650 nassau the bahamas :: website: http://www.thymeonline.com/ :: tel: 242 327-1864 fax: 242 377 1038
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