Starting off in grand Style
Just a disclaimer: I work at Six Apart and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE COMET! However, I'm not a Comet insider, as I work in a different part of our massively small company. Below is one in a collection of posts containing my thoughts about (Not)Comet. Did I mention how much I love Comet?
When will the miracles and amazement cease?! I just went over to my published blog, copied some text and then pasted it into the compose screen and -- wouldn't you know -- the styles were preserved!!
Holy crap, that's unheard of in a web app... Comet team you make me weep...
On the flip side, it does seem that sometimes I can't turn a style (like bold or italics) off no matter what I do. try copy/pasting italicized text into a new compose screen and see if you can write in anything other than italics...
That aside, awesome work...
Comments
This is a total mixed bag for me -- sometimes I want the styles preserved, and other times I don't, and because of that there needs to be a way to make sure that I can explicitly choose either behavior when I want it. (It's the same thing that drives me wonky every time I try to paste something into Word, or more frequently, the Outlook Web Access interface.)
And speaking of this: why is the posting interface WYSIWYG, but the comment interface isn't? Seems like letting people click-to-bold there but making them use tags here is inconsistent.
(Oops -- my HTML got normalized on that last comment. I tried to encode my HTML so that I could show the <b> tag, but Comet unencoded it...)
Yeah, that's true. We do need a way to paste without style. Still, THAT'S the normal experience. This is supernormal! Once you have the ability to remove styles easily, this thing is awesome.
I agree completely about the ySIWYG comment interface. I bet they have that coming... We are at v0.1 after all... :-)
Oh, one reason I can think of for NOT having ySIWYG on the comment form: It requires a LOT of javascript. That presents a load on the servers and a longer wait for readers. Probably a sticky problem to solve...