On 5/26/06, David Christian Berg <david@...407...> wrote:
E.g. while it's great to have the text editing finally in the top bar (THANK YOU SO MUCH!) the font selector should be a combobox and not some self-hacked thing
What's wrong with it? It currently has accessibility issues but they are fixable. Yet the usability advantage of the list with font samples is significant.
and the bold and italic buttons should be replaced with another drop down where one can choose from the available styles.
We decided against this because this list in the Font dialog is actually deceptive. We cannot set arbitrary styles because of CSS limitations. If you select e.g. some fancy "outline" or "swash caps" variant it will jump back to regular. There's a long-standing bug on that, and it's unfixable without adding a custom extension attribute or CSS property. So until this is done, it is much better to have only these primitive controls - they correspond 1:1 to CSS capabilities and therefore work reliably.