- From: Joe Gittings <joe.gittings@ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:07:23 +0100
- To: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- CC: www-amaya <www-amaya@w3.org>
Thanks Irene, knowing the Esc trick will certainly help for the time being. Joe Irene Vatton wrote: > Hi Joe, > > You're completely right, we have to fix the problem. > I just tried to explain the cause of the trouble and a possible solution for > you. > > > Thanks for the response. A few thoughts: > > > > i) As the developer this is very obvious to you. But as a user, it was completely > > non-obvious! I had absolutely no way of knowing that I should hit Esc. All I could > > see was that Amaya wasn't deleting what I asked it to. At the very least, it would > > be a good idea for Amaya to display an informative messsage box in this situation. > > > > ii) I don't believe I was trying to do anything unreasonable in this situation. I > > wanted to delete a particular block of text, and Amaya wouldn't let me. Hitting > > Esc means I end up deleting more than I want to. If Amaya is a WYSIWYG editor, > > surely there shouldn't be such a concept as an "inconsistent selection", as this > > is forcing users to take account of the underlying HTML/MathML. > > > > iii) If I enlarge the selection, delete it, and then Undo the deletion, I can then > > delete the area I originally wanted to delete. This suggests to me that it should > > have been possible to delete that area in the first place... > > > > Sorry to be a pain, but I am using Amaya a lot, and am just putting the user's > > point of view! > > > > Joe
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