11-15-2015, 07:47 PM
@bik
all true ...
It's the group discussion area for my school; I'm not looking to "fix" it per se. It's just a rant. My style of writing often involves a lot of moving text around and as you noted, it can't keep up with that. And so usually, selecting and clicking the un-format/clear formatting button is ignored because there's *nothing* about how the page is setup to become plain text (which from a design perspective I understand), and so it's back to guessing what to display which is what got it into trouble in the first place.
In my opinion, the editor's job is made doubly hard by having to obey two masters, HTML code and code for the CSS that's used. More than once I've had to delete
all true ...
It's the group discussion area for my school; I'm not looking to "fix" it per se. It's just a rant. My style of writing often involves a lot of moving text around and as you noted, it can't keep up with that. And so usually, selecting and clicking the un-format/clear formatting button is ignored because there's *nothing* about how the page is setup to become plain text (which from a design perspective I understand), and so it's back to guessing what to display which is what got it into trouble in the first place.
In my opinion, the editor's job is made doubly hard by having to obey two masters, HTML code and code for the CSS that's used. More than once I've had to delete
tags just to get it to respect a simple
tag for example.
I don't have a problem understanding the limitations of such online editors. My disappointment stems from the thing trying to be "Word" where Word isn't needed.