Re: Web page excerpt editor

At 11:19 AM -0400 5/5/08, Eric Butera wrote:

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote:

FCKEditor and TinyMCE are impressive in what they do, but they produce a mix of css and html -- that's not good in my book.

This is an interesting idea. Most clients don't want to see a text area to input raw html though. In the many years I've done this only 3 people have ever requested it specifically out of hundreds. You might want to look into shoving generated markup through ext/tidy. It might have some options to clean up all that embedded css. Maybe I'll have to look into it later when I have some free time. I'm tired of seeing those mso styles from Word. ;)

You make a good point -- and I agree with the Word problem. I have clients who cut/paste from Word and then wonder why it don't look right in their web site? I have one client who likes using <h1><b><i><br /> tags but doesn't know much about html -- plus, he's sloppy (lot's of errors). So, I'm not sure how I am going to handle that. Currently, my CMS for him is completely devoid of him entering any html, but that also means I have to program in options for linefeeds, bold/italic text, font size, and other such things. It's difficult to pin down all the different combinations of those things. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com