[Tickets #2163] RESOLVED: Carriage returns in HTML editor doublespacing all text

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2163
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 Ticket             | 2163
 Updated By         | kevin_myer at iu13.org
 Summary            | Carriage returns in HTML editor doublespacing all text
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | HEAD
 State              | Bogus
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Bug
 Owners             | 
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kevin_myer at iu13.org (2005-06-22 09:20) wrote:

>> Thats not the expected behavior from a normal end-user....  They
>> expect the HTML GUI to exhibit the same behavior as Microsoft Word.
>
> But it's a HTML editor, not a Word clone, and all HTML editors work that
way.

It may be a fact that its an HTML editor, but you are totally overlooking
what a TYPICAL end-user expects.  Not an end-user of an HTML editor.  An
end-user of an email application, of a word processing application, etc. 
They get frustrated when they hit return and two lines appear.  They don't
care that its an HTML editor.  It doesn't behave in a manner that they
normally expect.  They think its a bug, that the product is flawed.

Try composing an email in Thunderbird.  A return is a linebreak...  To a
user, its not an HTML editor.  Its a way of sending email with colors and
fonts and formatting.  Thats the useability angle you need to look at this
from (in my opinion).

Should have looked at the code first.  Documentation is at:
http://www.dynarch.com/demos/htmlarea/reference.html