Re: Improving the input forms

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.

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Re^2: Improving the input forms by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 11, 2005 at 11:26 UTC
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. Ive been hoping that some bright spark will figure out a way to do this from the freenodelet and tell us about it so we can just merge it into the system. If this is going to be a JS solution (IMO it should be) then there is no need for PMDEV to participate until someone has done an implementation in the freenodelet that works well with at least one of our input forms. OTOH I agree that if a god or pmdevil decided that doing this was important (and not just nice to have) it would be done already but the truth is there is no need for us to do it first, the nature of the problem allows any user to implement a solution. --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]

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Re^2: Improving the input forms
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 11, 2005 at 11:26 UTC

Ive been hoping that some bright spark will figure out a way to do this from the freenodelet and tell us about it so we can just merge it into the system. If this is going to be a JS solution (IMO it should be) then there is no need for PMDEV to participate until someone has done an implementation in the freenodelet that works well with at least one of our input forms.

OTOH I agree that if a god or pmdevil decided that doing this was important (and not just nice to have) it would be done already but the truth is there is no need for us to do it first, the nature of the problem allows any user to implement a solution.

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