Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-05-03 Thread Dylan Schiemann
Just a quick thought after reading the revised adding css to the editor document: It would also be nice if JavaScript could ask for permission to disable the user style sheet. Also, how does the edior display an element with display:none? My guess is it is viewable in tag mode as just a tag? -

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-05-03 Thread Daniel Glazman
Daniel Glazman wrote: > Good morning, > > I have added yesterday evening to www.mozilla.org a new document [1] > about basic CSS support in Composer. Just fyi, bug 77705 [1] is a tracking bug for the CSSization of Composer. It already contains work-in-progress code. Comments highly welcome !

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-03-16 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Glazman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: > >> c) CSS allow visual effects that users need : first-letter, > >> first-line, > > > > Again, that only works with a real block structure. If Editor doesn't > > use real paragraphs but contin

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-03-14 Thread Charles Manske
Joe Francis wrote: In Internet Explorer (and Microsoft Office apps by default), if you [snip] > > This is one of those times where my natural inclination is to agree with > you, but experience is telling me otherwise. If we had a selection > model that snapped into element mode the

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-03-07 Thread fantasai
Daniel Glazman wrote: > > Good morning, > > I have added yesterday evening to www.mozilla.org a new document [1] > about basic CSS support in Composer. It describes a proposal in four > steps. All comments, suggestions and even flames welcome. > vertical-align (replaced elements only) Vertica

Structure selection Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-03-06 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
copied to mozilla-accessibility Dreamweaver and Amaya also have nice models for selecting elements - there is a status bar that gives the information about what the ancestors are, and a method for selecting parent/child/sibling. In terms of accessible editing this is important (it is one of the

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-03-05 Thread Daniel Glazman
Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > No, the problem is that editor produces stuff that has all over the > place, so that it works well with old mail clients. This stuff will have lots > of first lines/first-letters (I think - should check the spec) that the > author probably doesn't mean to selec

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-03-04 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Daniel Glazman wrote: Henri Sivonen wrote: >> c) CSS allow visual effects that users need : first-letter, first-line, > > Again, that only works with a real block structure. If Editor doesn't > use real paragraphs but continues to use forced line breaks, things lik

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-03-02 Thread Daniel Glazman
Henri Sivonen wrote: >> c) CSS allow visual effects that users need : first-letter, first-line, > > Again, that only works with a real block structure. If Editor doesn't > use real paragraphs but continues to use forced line breaks, things like > first-letter and first-line are useless for p

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-26 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Glazman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) CSS allow a much better control of the rendering with media independance. >It is possible with one structure to have multiple views on multiple >devices as different as screen, printer, cell phone, PDA, tty,

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-25 Thread Joe Francis
>>> In Internet Explorer (and Microsoft Office apps by default), if you >>> select across a word boundary, you automatically select the entire >>> word. [MT] >> Someone at Microsoft must have thought that was pretty odd behavior, >> because in IE 5 for mac (which came after the win version), yo

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-25 Thread Daniel Glazman
Joe Francis wrote: > Why can't we just continue to abuse html (without css) for these rich > text clients? It's actually a lot easier to get it right, to get > smaller implementations, to get faster implementations, and to get > backwards compatibility. What I don't understand is what css b

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-24 Thread Joe Francis
>> I keep being told that the world implied by number 2) above is coming, >> so we better be able to support it. But I don't understand *why* it's >> coming. And I'm not sure I believe that it *is* coming. [JF] > It is coming for sure. It is coming because more than 50% of american > citizens

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-24 Thread Joe Francis
> > > Yes, but people who only care about the rendering and not about the > > > structure won't be using Mozilla Composer. [MT] > > Why is that? Composer is free, it's part of a product that is very > > visible, it's on their platform, and it is targeted (at the moment at > > least) right at th

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-23 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, fantasai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you select an element (as either part of your selection > or your entire selection), Just a side note wrt. block selection: Word and such don't support the concept on nesting blocks like HTML. Mathematica, however, do

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-23 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Glazman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: > Wysiwyg editing. There is not a single html editor on the market using > html as its internal format and able to do real wysiwyg editing. Trying to use HTML+CSS as an encoding format for font pr

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-23 Thread Daniel Glazman
Joe Francis wrote in ghost article : > CSS is just a nightmare for wysiwyg editing, as far as I can see. Hey Joe, thanks for the support ;- You know that I agree 100%. > So there are two ways to go: > > 1) Make a css editor that is the sticky gooey dream of most of the > leadership her

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-23 Thread Daniel Glazman
It seems that the gateway between the mozilla-editor and this newsgroup has some holes... Joe's message is not in npm.editor but mpt's answer is. So I remind the readers that the followup of the original message is in the NEWSGROUP (see top of document). Don't blame me if you send to the maili

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-23 Thread Matthew Thomas
Daniel Glazman wrote: > > Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > > Why do you suppose the author doesn't care about structure/markup? > > If Mozilla's *Web page* editor isn't pro-intent-of-standards and > > pro-structure, what good will it offer over the n+1 editors out > > there that are already built aroun

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-23 Thread Matthew Thomas
Joe Francis wrote: > > Matthew Thomas wrote: > > > > In Internet Explorer (and Microsoft Office apps by default), if you > > select across a word boundary, you automatically select the entire > > word. > > Someone at Microsoft must have thought that was pretty odd behavior, > because in IE 5 for

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-22 Thread fantasai
Daniel Glazman wrote: | > | Why the hell are inline styles "bloated" ??? | > | > Because the same styles are repeated (and diverged, and | > unmaintainable) for every single document you write, | > instead of just existing in a single file. | > | > This is, to a large extent, why style sh

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-22 Thread Daniel Glazman
Henri Sivonen wrote: > Why do you suppose the author doesn't care about structure/markup? If > Mozilla's *Web page* editor isn't pro-intent-of-standards and > pro-structure, what good will it offer over the n+1 editors out there > that are already built around the assumption that the user wan

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-22 Thread Joe Francis
Matthew Thomas wrote: > In Internet Explorer (and Microsoft Office apps by default), if you > select across a word boundary, you automatically select the entire word. Someone at Microsoft must have thought that was pretty odd behavior, because in IE 5 for mac (which came after the win version)

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-22 Thread Charles McCathieNevile
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Dylan Schiemann wrote: [snip] Regarding MS Word as a testcase showing that it is better to not style selections, I could not disagree more. Word is a painful example for how to style documents. Word is not such a bad example for element-based styling. But ofr inline

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-22 Thread Dylan Schiemann
Daniel, In the following text: "This is important for compatibility with legacy browsers that do not fully understand shorthand properties ('border-width' for instance is a shorthand for 'border-left-width' 'border-right-width' 'border-top-width' and 'border-bottom-width' ), with a value between

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-22 Thread Daniel Glazman
Dylan Schiemann wrote: > In the following text: > > "This is important for compatibility with legacy > browsers that do not fully understand shorthand > properties ('border-width' for instance is a shorthand > for 'border-left-width' 'border-right-width' > 'border-top-width' and 'border-bottom-

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-22 Thread Matthew Thomas
Daniel Glazman wrote: > > Matthew Thomas wrote: > > > If you regard Netscape and Outlook as `most', then yes. But Pegasus, > > Eudora, etc just understand simple things like and -- I > > would be extremely surprised if they ever include support for > > `text-decoration' or `border' or whatever

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel Glazman
Matthew Thomas wrote: > If you regard Netscape and Outlook as `most', then yes. But Pegasus, > Eudora, etc just understand simple things like and -- I would > be extremely surprised if they ever include support for > `text-decoration' or `border' or whatever. I'd be surprised if they don't inc

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-21 Thread Matthew Thomas
Daniel Glazman wrote: >... > > content. And secondly, many of those mail clients which support HTML > > (to some extent) will, in all likelihood, never support CSS. HTML > > 3.2 will be the lingua franca. > > I *strongly* disagree with this last assertion but it is my personal > opinion only. If

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-21 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Glazman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Thomas wrote: > > That was my point -- it's ok to copy and paste elements across the > > boundaries of other elements when doing mail composition (where you're > > not concerned with counting CLASSes or specifyi

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel Glazman
Matthew Thomas wrote: > | This document contains a proposal for the addition of CSS 1 support to > | the Editor. It describes the extensions the editor needs to become an > | HTML+CSS wysiwyg editor useable by document providers writing HTML > | documents without breaking the behavior expected b

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-21 Thread Henri Sivonen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Glazman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added yesterday evening to www.mozilla.org a new document [1] > about basic CSS support in Composer. It describes a proposal in four > steps. All comments, suggestions and even flames welcome. > > Followup is in

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-21 Thread Matthew Thomas
Daniel Glazman wrote: >... > [1] http://www.mozilla.org/editor/adding-css-to-editor.html >... |... | This document contains a proposal for the addition of CSS 1 support to | the Editor. It describes the extensions the editor needs to become an | HTML+CSS wysiwyg editor useable by document provide

Re: Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel Glazman
Daniel Glazman wrote: > I have added yesterday evening to www.mozilla.org a new document [1] > about basic CSS support in Composer. It describes a proposal in four > steps. All comments, suggestions and even flames welcome. > > Followup is in newsgroup netscape.public.mozilla.editor only. > >

Adding CSS to Composer : request for comments

2001-02-20 Thread Daniel Glazman
Good morning, I have added yesterday evening to www.mozilla.org a new document [1] about basic CSS support in Composer. It describes a proposal in four steps. All comments, suggestions and even flames welcome. Followup is in newsgroup netscape.public.mozilla.editor only. [1] http://www.mozilla