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Which features do we need for a real WYSIWYG editor to enhance questions texts and their answers?

Although the questions titles, with their 140 chars limit, leave no room for fancy fonts, the text of questions can supposedly be enhanced by WYSIWYG features.

It seems however that these features are currently very limited: bullet point lists, numbered lists... that's all.

Too many features would be a bad idea, because they would probably bring a lot of additional complexity.

Personally, I would appreciate:

* Bold and Italic
* Choice of 3 fonts, maybe within a limited set of styles: fixed font ala Courier, sans-serif font like Arial, serif-font like Georgia and Times Roman.

This would probably enhance a lot questions and answers...
What do YOU think?
(Initially typed in WYSIWYG... but this seems to crash Mahalo!)
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jeffhoard jeffhoard
 
 June 04, 2009 01:18 AM
Like you mentioned I would like to see bold and italic, I would also like to see a Block Quote option. So many people copy/paste information from elsewhere it would be essential to have an easy way show its quoted text.


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fibo fibo
 
June 05, 2009 01:24 PM
Right. Being able to attribute source to a quote, and to show that it is a quote, is an essential part of the web.

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teemu teemu
 
June 03, 2009 08:31 PM
What I would be able to do is color my text! That would be really cool to be able to customize it in that way.

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jeffhoard jeffhoard
 
June 04, 2009 01:18 AM
heh, no way would I want to see colored text, it would in an instant ruin the credibility of the website...sorry

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fibo fibo
 
June 05, 2009 01:38 PM
@Jeff: could you elaborate? Do you mean that anything else that black would be a major trouble in site credibility?
Not arguing (yet), just curious and preparing to read/listen

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jeffhoard jeffhoard
 
June 05, 2009 05:56 PM
@fibo I guess it depends on how it's used, but when you think of the websites that gave users the ability to color their text (bulletin boards, forums, myspace) they are generally unattractive websites to visit. Mahalo Answers is working towards being a reputable legitimate Q&A service, I just don't think new users and visitors would take us seriously if my text here was in large bold font purple.

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