html input features

[PMB9]

What about

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<textarea type="html">

and

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<div editable>Just edit this text, if you want!</div>

?

So you don't need TinyMCE, FCKeditor, etc.[/code]

[zcorpan]

Do you mean that you want rich, editable text that takes part in form submission without scripting?

Right now we have contenteditable and designMode, though you need scripting for both of them if you want to submit the text.

[PMB9]

Yes, I want submit rich, editable text without scripting. It needs to be barrier-free.

[zcorpan]

The script would basically just be

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<form>
<div contenteditable id=message><p><br></p></div>
<input type=hidden name=hidden>
<script>
  document.forms[0].onsubmit = function() {
    this.hidden.value = document.getElementById('message').innerHTML;
  }
</script>
<p><input type=submit></p>
</form>

Is that really too much of a hassle?

[PMB9]

Yes, that's too much of a hassle. I don't like to use javascript for this basic feature. It seems to be a workaround. I won't look like a textarea.

[zcorpan]

This was discussed before, see http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatw ... 04600.html and messages in the same thread http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatw ... .html#4526

I think we need to get better interop on what's in the spec now before extending the feature...

[PMB9]

I want to keep my website free of javascript, but I don't want to force visitors to write html. I think basic support for this feature is easy to implement for browser engineers, if they already support "contenteditable".