[Radiant] Radiant Digest, Vol 7, Issue 24

[Todd Baur]

Well like I said it will be available at the end of the month.
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Todd Baur
todd at tackletechnology.org
858-752-1459
11814 Westview Parkway
Unit #176
San Diego, CA 92126



On Oct 13, 2006, at 8:46 AM, radiant-request at lists.radiantcms.org wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:40:32 -0400
> From: orff <proudestmonkey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Radiant] WYSIWY Get plugin
> To: radiant at lists.radiantcms.org
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> My vote is for a plugin to do this -- I will install it.   If for  
> nothing
> else, it will help in making the decision to replace a bloated CMS  
> like M$
> CMS -- which we are doing in my company.
>
> A WYSIWYG editor is one of the main things they wanted...  This  
> will make my
> users happy.  The flexiblity of Radiant will make me happy.
>
> On 10/11/06, Tom Styles <tom.styles at nottscc.gov.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Todd Baur wrote:
>>> Sorry, I have to disagree with you completely. The non-technical
>>> person is non-technical because they choose not to or their  
>>> cognitive
>>> patterns align them to excel in other ways.
>>
>> Just wanted to back that up with a tale from the front line.
>> I have recently built a news system for our Intranet using rails.  
>> Being
>> a bit of a convert to the textile way of things I initally shunned  
>> the
>> idea of implementing a wysiwyg interface. But after a week of so of
>> support calls from across the office asking how to put bullet's in  
>> etc.
>> I gave in a implemented widgEditor by Cameron Adams -
>> http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/widgEditor/
>>
>> It's very simple to start with and we've made it even more so by
>> removing the italic and image buttons from it too. We also removed  
>> some
>> of the options in the "Blocktype" drop down so the only options  
>> are now,
>> Paragraph, Heading, and Sub-Heading. Our users wouldn't understand  
>> what
>> an h3 was anyway.
>>
>> The cheers of glee that errupted when we showed off the new interface
>> were an strong show of feeling in favour of wysiwyg. So even though
>> I'm going to be using alot more textile on my own sites, I'm going to
>> stick with trimmed down wysiwyg for customer's sites.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Tom

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