- From: Frederico Caldeira Knabben <fredck@fckeditor.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 11:41:04 +0200
- To: <public-html@w3.org>
- Cc: <j_james@mindspring.com>
Sorry for opening parenthesis on this discussion. I just want to give a bit more precision over Justin's comments. People out there take public conversations as sacrosanct references, and so it is important to take good care when we are talking openly. Let me take the relevant bytes from Justin's text: > The problem is garbage tools like FCK Editor that still use <font> This phrase, other than being outdated, is offensive. It just throws away all the hard work we are doing behind FCKeditor. The exact same thing can be said in other ways. But this is irrelevant, anyway. The fact is that browsers based text editors, as the name says, use browser features to execute editing operations, include formatting. The well know/unknown execCommand function. The problem is that browsers, not all of them, use <font> tags for many commands available for that function, including font face, size and color. So, first of all, let's point the finger to the right place. During the last year, we've decided abandoning the execCommand function because of such problems, providing also consistency among all browsers. The result of it has been released with FCKeditor 2.5, published on November 2007 (6 months ago). Just try our online demo... no <font> tags there: http://www.fckeditor.net/demo Also, with FCKeditor you can achieve unique things, like the following: http://www.fckeditor.net/nightly/fckeditor/_samples/html/sample14.html In the above sample, almost everything is done with CSS classes, including font attributes, colors and alignments. Anyway... just tried to give a bit more info, and underline that words can easily kill things in this world wide open web. Closing the parenthesis. Frederico Caldeira Knabben Project Manager, FCKeditor ---- http://www.fckeditor.net
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