| ioi said: twesterm, I'm still confused about some of what you are saying. In order to edit or quote, you need to use the rich text editor- what if the post you are quoting or editing has a video / image / table or whatever in it? Let's get another thing straight, I didn't write the editor, it is an off the shelf one I found (a large and very popular one by the sound of it). What do you mean by a forced line break, if you mean double line spacing then try shift+enter. Random backspacing I'm also a little confused about - if you want to know what is going on look at the indicator tag at the bottom of the editor. If you are familiar with html it wil tell you whether you are within a < p > tag or table tags or whatever. Then people keep saying auto-formatting, how is it auto formatting, you mean things like coding URLs and stuff like that? |
I apologize, it sounded as though from other posts that this was all custom. Still though, I just hate the Rich Text Reply.
For editing, when you press edit can't we just see the tags (HTML or BBC--don't care)? I imagine the people that want the option to skip the rich text reply wouldn't care about seeing the tags and using that.
For the forced line break thing, I mean exactly what shift+enter fixes. After someone told me about that it's one of those things I don't mind but would still rather have without if at all possible.
I'm a little confused on the random backspacing thing too because I can't always reproduce it. I know others have experienced it because I've heard other people talk about it. What happens is when typing a word and you decide you don't want to type that word or whatever and you start backspacing. When you get to the first letter in the word, you backspace over that letter and then backspace the space before that letter too. I can't tell you just how frustrating that is. And like I said, it's not something I can reliably reproduce.
When I say auto formatting, I mean the stuff I'm talking about above.
One other thing that bothers me about the Rich Text reply box is that my Firefox2 spell checker doesn't work unless I right click and tell it to spell check. Even then, it doesn't spell check stuff I typed before turning it all the time. I'm not always the best typist and I really hate typos and I love having FireFox spell check my posts.
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I thought I had found out when the backspace issue happens, but I was wrong. I thought it happened maybe when you right click and turn on the Firefox 2 spell check but that apparently isn't it.
