Mod Idea:WYSIWYG

[A.M.A.]

I think there is some thread about WYSIWYG editor ... but i can't find it!
Is this a good mod for YaBBSE or it is just too much java!

[rickc]

I think that would be another great idea, your temp. maker is the closest thing to it that I know:)
/i mean don't get me wrong I know html good, but by the time I check what part of the css controls what part, them ajust the colors, then update my images, I forget what I was doing....

btw thanks again for the xp buttons, I'll be setting
them up soon

[A.M.A.]

It seems not a good idea after all

[Iridium]

Seems like a good idea. You could always "borrow" (with the necessary modifications to create YaBBCode, rather than HTML) the Hotmail Rich Text Editor for e-mails.

[A.M.A.]

What I have in mind is integrating the htmlArea to work with yabbse! I've made some progress but then java is not my specialty. So before making this mod .. I just want to see if it is realy worth my precious time and of course if yabbse's users need such tool.

[Rowan Lewis]

It is, if you can do it

[Iridium]

Personally, I'm happy with just using the YaBBCode, but then, I've been using it for ages.
Newer users, who may not have encountered HTML/BBCode before may have difficulty with adapting to using it to format their messages. For these people, a WYSIWIG editor would certainly be a great bonus, and would enable users to post messages using an interface similar to those they may be familiar with (eg. MS Word) More than a few times, I've seen people who have expected to be able to select text, then apply a style (as one would do in a word processor), like "Glow" to it, and have ended up with a glowing "TEXT" in their message, and the rest plain. This would solve that problem nicely.

I do however invisage a number of problems. The main one being that YaBBCode isn't recognised by the browser, and so somehow, you're going to have to get some kind of conversion from HTML (in the editor) to YaBBCode, either with (client-side) script before posting, or in a Post.php script.

[A.M.A.]

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I do however invisage a number of problems. The main one being that YaBBCode isn't recognised by the browser, and so somehow, you're going to have to get some kind of conversion from HTML (in the editor) to YaBBCode, either with (client-side) script before posting, or in a Post.php script.

Yup the conversion is the hard part. When using a complex WYSIWYG editor you will be face with complicated html tags that are hard to convert.