[Pmwiki-users] Idea about the preview

[Patrick R. Michaud]

I'll work on redesigning things so that the preview can be displayed
independently of the edit box, but because of other committments it 
will be likely a few days before I can get to this.

Pm


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:32:42AM -0700, Wayne Lee wrote:
> more opinion:
> 
> it has been suggested to me by many of
> our wiki users that the preview should
> come before the edit area for the reason
> mentioned below.
> 
> i'll look into switching it around, but if
> anyone successfully done this, please
> post the info.  thanks!
> 
> thanks,
> wayne
> 
> On Apr 27, 2004, at 6:47 AM, Bob Dively wrote:
> 
> >Christian Ridderstr?m <chr at home.se> wrote:
> >
> >>Is there a reason why you aren't directly transported to the 
> >>preview-area
> >>of the page when you press "Preview"? I.e. couldn't we have an anchor
> >>just before the preview area, and append something like "#preview" to
> >>the URI that you eventually get after pressing "Preview"?
> >
> >I know that PM went with the majority opinion at the time, but I've 
> >never
> >quite understood why the actual preview comes after the textarea edit 
> >box
> >on the preview page. The idea is to preview after all. It is possible 
> >to
> >reverse the two sections in config.php, but that introduces a subtle 
> >bug
> >into the text in the preview page textarea object which is then saved 
> >with
> >incorrect values (or at least it did last time I looked at it which 
> >was a
> >couple of months ago). The anchor idea is a nice workaround if the 
> >textarea
> >has to stay first on the page, but it has to be done in a way that's
> >obvious to the user (i.e., they have to know that they must scroll up 
> >to
> >edit more or save).
> >
> >-b
> >
> >
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