Thinking Out Loud

When it handles HTML let me know. RTF is a dead standard that is pretty much useless in the age of the internet....

One benefit of RTF over HTML (unless I'm unaware) is that RTF allows you to embed images, while HTML can only link to a file that has to sit somewhere else.

When sharing user-entered content on a website, then, RTF is better at handling images since it's self-contained.  A link to an image one user enters may not work for another user in HTML.

Thank's Ray for making RTF editing happen in the Grid.

@James:

I do not agree with you. RTF is very good.

If you were to follow your reasoning to the end, you would be typing your e-mails or documents in Adobe Dreamweaver or similar software.

But most of the time regular Windows users type their documents in Word (or OpenOffice or whatever) and do not care what the underlying format is (docx, txt, html, rtf, etc.).

And I have a very silly question : For which browser should the to-be DevExpress HTML editor be best adjusted ?

Possible answers: IE (5,6,7,8,...), Opera, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, etc. select one.

Each of these browsers renders pages differently. Then there is CSS, user preferences (colors, fonts), etc.

As a side note, XML might be a better format than HTML, but I am pretty sure that an RTF to XML converter is technically feasable without too much costs.

@ James - You may want to check out the other post titled 'Silverlight and WinForms Rich Text Editor (RTF) Control ' which states that both HTML import and export are slated for 9.2.  I would imagine that this will be rolled into the RepositoryEdit as well.

I agree with James.  Because most of my uses for an editor like this involve Outlook 2007 Email, RTF is of no use to me. (It does look nice though)

Do toy by any change mean DXperience v2009 vol  1.2 instead of DXperience v2009 vol  1.3?!

@James hancock

I think they're about to let you know:

community.devexpress.com/.../silverlight-and-winforms-rich-text-editor-rtf-control.aspx

:p

Very need full HTML support ...

Another words: need HTML WYSIWYG editor for windows and RTF not important ...

Thanks for the post Ray, didn't know that! Very useful!

Couldn't agree more with James. We need HTML to have the best of both worlds, WinForms and ASP.NET forms sharing the same data.

Is HTML really being included in 2009.2 .