[webkit-dev] [resending] Improving ability to filter the tags produced by editable webkit?

[Dan Wood]

Thanks for the insight Darin.

One thing that is frustrating is that I don't know exactly what the  
bugs are.  Should I report each thing that annoys me as a separate  
bugzilla case, and see what happens?    I'm just looking for the best  
"next action" I can take here.



On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Darin Adler wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Dan Wood wrote:
>
>> * Being able to control/prevent insertion of apple-only and/or  
>> webkit-only tags and styles
>> * Being able to control/prevent certain kinds of tags and style  
>> tags from being inserted, to keep markup simpler and perhaps  
>> prevent certain adjustments like changing fonts/colors
>> * Having control over how "physical" attributes (like boldface)  
>> get marked up (e.g. <b> or <strong> or <div style="font- 
>> weight:bold;">)
>> * Better normalization of tags so you never get two identical,  
>> adjacent style spans; they would be coalesced into one.
>> * Semi-intelligent mapping of "physical" attributes to predefined  
>> styles classes
>> * Better use of CSS short-hand, e.g. use the "font:" property  
>> instead of font-family and font-size
>> * Be able to specify how plain text is dealt with when it's pasted  
>> in; is it blocked within <pre> tags, separated by <br/> tags, or  
>> each line enclosed in <div> tags.
>
> We need to sort through these.
>
> - Some of these are just bugs; we don't want to create API to  
> request bug fixes!
> - Some tags and styles WebKit is inserting for no good reason, and  
> the best solution is to eliminate them rather than providing API to  
> remove them.
> - Some of these are policy changes we should make by default. We  
> don't want to offer API if every reasonable customer would want the  
> better policy.
>
> Once we've dealt with those issue, I think it makes sense to take a  
> look at the rest and consider what kind of API we'd need to provide  
> so that someone can control the things that really are application  
> dependent. I'm concerned that if there's a broad set of options  
> there would be many untested combinations.
>
>     -- Darin
>
>

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