Designing <richtext>
October 15, 2007
I am designing <richtext> behavior for htmlayout/sciter… So far I like the way it allows to edit the text.
There are interesting usability problems bubble up sometimes… Let’s say you have following document:
<body>
<pre>
....
</pre>
<table>
....
</table>
</body>
And now imagine that you need to insert some text (paragraph) between the table and that pre block. Or insert paragraph (<p>) at the beginning of the document – before the <pre>…
I do not know any WYSIWYG HTML editor that allow to handle such operations.
So I have invented “horizontal caret” that marks start-block-position. Enter key in that position causes new paragraph to be inserted.
Here is an example of such caret – blinking black bar in top-left corner of the pre element:
Inserting between pre and table in frontpage:
goto cell1 and press ctrl+enter
Comment by Kubik — October 15, 2007 @ 11:39 pm
To Kubik: that is far from WYSIWYG. How do you know that Ctrl-Enter will do something at this position?
Comment by Andrew — October 17, 2007 @ 8:41 am
I have been wondering about this for years… Even if Frontpage seems to accomodate for it, it is far from intuitive. Well done.
Comment by Midas — November 13, 2007 @ 3:06 am