- From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhbnc.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:23:22 +0000
- To: Beth Skwarecki <skwareea@screech.cs.alfred.edu>
- CC: www-html@w3.org
Beth Skwarecki wrote: > [...] I've been using screem a lot > lately - it's a HTML-specific text editor with a bunch of nifty features, > including the whole drag-and-drop site management stuff and toolbars to > format text (you select the text, click the "bold" button, it puts <b> tags > around your text) Isn't that exactly the sort of thing we are trying to eliminate?! Surely the way of the future (and the sooner the better) is "select the text, click the "class" extensible drop-down menu, choose or add the appropriate class, and then [it] puts <span> or <div> tags as appropriate with the corresponding class around your text, then pops up a dialogue box (if the class isn't already known) asking how entities of such a class should be rendered...". -- Philip TAYLOR Webmaster, Information Services Royal Holloway & Bedford New College Tel: +44 (0)1784 443172 (Office/answer'phone) Tel: +44 (0)7970 443172 (Orange/answer'phone) Fax: +44 (0)1784 434348 Mailto:P.Taylor@Rhbnc.Ac.Uk
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