[whatwg] Pressing Enter in contenteditable: <p> or <br> or <div>?

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Tue May 17 00:19:17 PDT 2011


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>  > This is very presentational thinking.
>
> Correct.  This API was designed and is used presentationally, not
> semantically.  Both authors and users want presentational formatting
> here.  That's why it's called "What You *See* Is What You Get".
>

I completely disagree. As a user, I want semantics when I write my blog
entry on WordPress so that I can tweak presentation afterwards.  e.g. I have
frequently used em {font-style: normal; font-weight:bold;} strong
{text-decoration:underline; font-weight: normal;} in the past.

And when I press enter, I want a paragraph separator NOT a line break.

- Ryosuke



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