- From: Max Romantschuk <max@provico.fi>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 08:13:13 +0300
I realize I may well be opening a can of worms here, and I don't wish to start a flame war... but I still would like to take the opportunity to highlight this issue: In secion 1.5. (Missing features) of the it states that (among other things) a rich text editing or HTML editing control was ejected for this version of the specification. I feel that a rich text editing control should be considered for inclusion after all. It might be that there is some serious issue I haven't considered, so it would be nice to hear the original grounds for rejection. The reason I think a rich text editing control is rather important is simple: Almost all web applications involve some level of web publishing, and most end users love rich text editing. We use the MSHTML editor in one of our products at work, and the editing features have been a huge selling point. It's a real shame it only works on IE. (We have a fallback based on regular forms tough.) I believe that a standardised interface for rich text editing would be a very good addition to Web Forms 2, despite the issues with creating a solid specification for something this complex. I won't open up discussion on actual implementation just yet, but I would like to hear the opinions of other list participants on this issue. Does anyone else think this would be a good thing? .max PS. To save you all some Googling, for comparison: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/browser/editing/activateeditor.asp -- Max Romantschuk http://max.nma.fi/
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