- From: Doron Rosenberg <doronr@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:24:55 -0700
Mozilla and now Safari support this already :) On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 08:13:13 +0300, Max Romantschuk <max at provico.fi> wrote: > 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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