it is useful for the intro (deck) of articles. which ususally contain no
links or formatting but *feel* longer than the text input line field. even
though most of the time they won't exceed the 255 chars. but still in a
textarea field you can see the text all at once.

i think it would be a good thing.

At 20:12 21.03.2006, you wrote:
>Since a whole bunch of changes are being made to the Article Types in
>2.6, we were wondering if it would be useful to be able to turn the
>WYSIWYG editor on or off for text fields. This basically means you
>could have a "plain text field" and an "HTML field". The HTML field
>would have the editor, and the plain text field wouldn't (a normal
>TEXTAREA in HTML). Why wouldn't you want the editor? Maybe you don't
>need formatting capabilities for a field, or maybe you want the "Article
>Edit" screen to load faster. Since no one has expressed a need for
>this, we have our doubts this would be useful, so please speak up if you
>like this idea.
>
>- Paul


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