On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 00:11 -0700, Kateri Jensen wrote: > The biggest problem with that is not everyone is comfortable having to > use RTF for their entry-writing. I for one hate it and would prefer > using PhotoBucket over being lazy with hosting my images on the > service. I know that not everyone likes having to rely on raw coding > but in the longrun it'd be a lot easier to work on re-training > yourself to using the old img src html function.
The fact that you prefer it does not make it "easier". Using the RTF editor is very clearly easier for anyone who doesn't know HTML, despite the fact that it is wildly annoying for you, me, and anyone else who does know how to construct an image tag. An 'insert image tag' button should be fairly simple to add to the plain text editor though - it could just dump a well-formed img tag in at the cursor (<img src="" alt="" and title="" />), and leave people to fill in the blanks, or it could pop up a dialog box with little text entry boxes for 'URL for image', 'description of image', 'hover text for image', and then dump the whole tag in for you. There's obviously a danger of adding too much functionality to the plain editor and making it as annoying as the RTF one, but I think 'I want to put an image in my post' is a sufficiently common use case to be worth giving special consideration. Regards, Denny PS: in future, could you consider trimming the irrelevant bits out of emails you're replying to? Putting your reply underneath a copy of the list's signature is a particularly unusual choice - I almost missed your actual reply entirely. _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
