Some ideas and thought about posting:
- Standardize! Sometimes experience shows before hitting
"Submit", sometimes after. Some places show you your
post, as it appears on the page, after you post, some
only show the TEXTAREA box.
- Have a link to instructions (or put them below the
TEXTAREA box, with a note to look below) These should
explain everything about posting, especially how to
do CODE, < vs. <, linking and how to create
actual [non-linking brackets], etc.
- Have some error checking to eliminate empty posts,
even something as simple as just checking for a 0
length post
- Allow posting as "Anonymous Monk" when you are logged in,
if so desired.
- Make the TEXTAREA box bigger! Perhaps have it go full-screen,
then start the table with the boxes on the right.
- Have intelligent parsing of brackets - perhaps a common
escape code like an asterick as the first thing after
an open bracket indicates that it is NOT a link.
- Allow a way to link to specific nodes by number!
- Explain what that "position" field is that sometimes
appears below the "title"
- Allows other places to do the automatic line numbering,
like Craft does.
- Detect people who did not use the CODE tags automatically,
perhaps by flagging lines...well, ok this would be very
complicated. But still possible.
- Warn users who have very long lines that cause my browser
to create a very large and annoying window. :)
- Make the TITLE box larger (hrmm..looks like it does not even
have a size now. Sizing it larger (like perhaps 40) should be
safe, as the TEXTAREA below it is set to 60 (which should be
larger too - see above)
- Allow a standard "sig" to appear in the TEXTAREA box
for those that use them in every post