Yes, it would be nice to do that. But there are other problems associated with it, such as, do we store the text as entered, and rerender to HTML on every output? (lots of work for the server), or just convert it once and then people have to edit their posts in HTML mode? What formats do we allow? How can we do it without Javascript? (Currently the site avoids JS almost completely) etcetc..

If you dig around in Super Search, you'll see this has come up often.

Personally, I think the biggest problem is that no-one has come forward to champion the attempt to add such a system, ie one of the pmdev or gods, and until that happens, we're not going to get any improvements in that direction.

C.

In reply to Re: Improving the input forms by castaway
in thread Improving the input forms by s_m_b

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