I've got the diacritical blues myself right about now...
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:39 AM, David Uspal <david.uspal_at_villanova.edu>wrote:
> "I'm having issues with my edits not looking right on the page."
>
> "Did you cut and paste from a Word document into the WYSIWYG editor?"
>
> "Yes."
>
> "Bingo."
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Cary Gordon
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:22 AM
> To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Wikis
>
> More often than not, the author seems to intend the poleaxing of your
> user experience.
>
> Cary
>
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Nate Vack <njvack_at_wisc.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Cary Gordon <listuser_at_chillco.com>
> wrote:
> >> WYSIWYG editors are the bane of my existence.
> >
> > Well... it depends on what you want. If you want clean, valid HTML,
> > then yes -- WYSIWYG editors are unholy abominations unleashed upon the
> > earth.
> >
> > If you want documents to look mostly closely like the author intended,
> > they're not so bad. Occasionally we need to do a "paste it into
> > Notepad and then back" maneuver, but it's rare.
> >
> > Sometimes people do really, really strange things like pasting an
> > entire web page or Word document into the Wiki editor. For extra fun,
> > paste an entire wiki editor into the wiki editor. That's its own
> > meta-trip.
> >
> > But the worst case response tends to be "How the heck did you do that?
> > Let's revert that, shall we?"
> >
> > -n
>
>
>
> --
> Cary Gordon
> The Cherry Hill Company
> http://chillco.com
>
Received on Thu Jul 26 2012 - 12:57:03 EDT