Re: About the TODO list

Morten Fangel wrote:

> I have a few additions, and a bit of feedback
> 
> Inplement font-fam./font-size instead of font-style (h1, h2, p, pre) -
> I have a proof-of-concept code for this - should be extracted from
> KupuUI and made a tool, Guido has the code for it... So what should be
> done is the extract the current font-style selector into a tool, and
> my font-fam/size selector into a tool, and create some way of chosing
> which to use...

The style menu currently lets you specify both the tag (h1, h2, p, pre, 
div, etc.) and the class to be associated with the tag. Most content 
management system managers want to impose a consistent style across the 
site which is why having a few predefined text styles is preferred over 
letting the users specify fonts themselves.

> 
> I am not sure if I understand the part about classes for spans, but I
> would like a way to set a specific class for the selected text - no
> matter what tag is selected... 

Right, but if you select some text and specify a style for it, then unless 
the text you selected is already the content of a tag we need to insert 
some sort of tag to delimit the selection and by default that would be 
<span>.

> Most end-users care about font-fam./size - and catchy look and feel...
> (so a complete overhaul of the UI should be considered... ) 

As I said above there is a conflict between the formatting which users want 
to do, which is often based on 'pick a pretty font', and the needs of a CMS 
where the styles are selected by name and can then be skinned differently 
according to the required presentation. I recognise that there is also a 
conflict between those people who are running a CMS for 1 or 2 'power' 
users against those who are running it in a corporate environment. The 
answer is probably to work on improving the ease of customisation so that 
tools can be added/removed more easily on a per-installation basis.

That's why I'm working to make the initialisation code much more generic so 
that it can survive tools being added or removed without needing any code 
changes.