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Editing in the Browser (#1257)
Posted: 6/19/2003; 7:21 PM by Terry Frazier
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Here's something nice -- WYSIWYG browser-based editing for Conversant. If you're a blogger on the Mac, or use any browser other than MSIE on Windoze, WYSIWYG editing has been a pipedream. Even simple blog entries required some HTML coding for links and such -- a real nuisance for people who don't want to learn HTML. (This is a problem for all the blogging tools, not just Conversant.)

Seth Dillingham at Macrobyte is preparing to release a Conversant plug-in that will give Mozilla users on any platform access to WYSIWYG editing. As Clark notes below, this is a big step forward for Conversant. HTML coding is an issue for lots of people, and tearing down that barrier is a real advantage for new users.

What You See Is What You Get--literally
At last, I can write weblog entries right in the browser. I've been jealous of Windows users in this one regard for some time now (this, and the plethora of pop-up windows their browsers allow which give access to a rich assortment of products and services). Thanks to their suppor for Midas, either Mozilla or Internet Explorer can be used to edit entries in WYSIWYG mode.

For Conversant, this is big, as it opens the ability to do some more interesting things in weblog posts even for those who don't know hmtl (which is, like, everyone I know save three people), and is yet another reason new weblogger should consider Conversant (once Seth makes Midas-support generally available--but don't wait for that).

Can't wait to test more of this out and to see what html it actually inserts. [via Clark Venable]

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