[wp-testers] The WYSIWYG buttons

Andy Skelton skeltoac at gmail.com
Sun Apr 2 23:52:15 GMT 2006


On 4/2/06, Dan Milward <dan at instinct.co.nz> wrote:
> I don't agree with you Andy. I think we should add / include the button
> to "clean word markup" as a default. It should be made as simple as
> possible for all human beings. Not just geeks.

Dan, you can't disagree with me when you don't know my opinion on the
matter. Truth be told, I would love for all useful buttons, especially
cleanup and the less-known "Paste From Word"  to be available in the
default toolbar. Just ask Matt. Every time I update TinyMCE I try to
smuggle a bigger toolbar along with it.

I was able to sneak something in as an Easter Egg but that's all I'm
saying about that.

About this "typical" person you mention who prefers to write in Word.
That person is a significant fraction of the blogging populace but not
a major fraction and not a typefying fraction, either. The
wordpress.com feedback sometimes, but not often, brings a note from
this person. We encourage this person to use the editor we provide and
now that it includes a spellchecker we see this person abandon Word
frequently and without a complaint.

Actually, since we installed the spellchecker we haven't had a single
feedback message from anyone trying to paste from Word.

Andy


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