Inside the Guardian’s CMS: meet Scribe, an extensible rich text editor

Re:Inside the Guardian’s CMS: meet Scribe, an extensible ric... by danso on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:51PM (#7439089)

Sorry, but how did MacWrite solve the text-editing problem? I'm guessing you don't mean the actual dead program, unless it exists under another name. So what module could you be referring to? And is it part of Windows platforms?

And how does your process handle the checking of URLs? I've done newspaper pasteup with PageMaker since high school...as far as I remember, there was not a simple way to double check URLs. Actually I don't even remember there being such a concept as embedding hyperlink URLs into what would be print newspapers, but that's besides the point...

And correct me if I'm wrong, but where does the MacWrite magic turn into Web content? You ended your description at "designer brings it into Quark". That's not the Web. that's not even...anything.

And of course, I'm talking about a lot more than the Web here, I'm talking about a portable format that can be read without any special text editor at all. How does MacWrite fit into that?

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Re:Inside the Guardian’s CMS: meet Scribe, an extensible ric... by Doctor_Fegg on Friday March 21, 2014 @03:20AM (#7441085)

I'm talking UI. MacWrite established a fast, efficient, clear UI for entering text, one that has been used by professional writers for the last 30 years.

Getting that into your medium of choice, whether that be print, the web, or whatever, is a SMOP. The Guardian have chosen to tackle this SMOP. Markdown chose to hack around it instead, but at the cost of usability.

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