[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 101179] Writer/Web: View > HTML Source mode toggles are awkward

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101179

--- Comment #11 from skyhook at shaw.ca ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #10)
> (In reply to skyhook from comment #9)
> > ...It just needs to be dropped.

Thanks for reaching out. My final word on this, then, as a user: 

"What do you use it for?" was asked in 2017. I fell into this because I wanted
to proof formatting in my Thunderbird sig's. 

That was a bit of a surprise in itself, that I had to work with tags. I could
trial-and-error with test messages, and didn't require Writer. After I stripped
increasing amounts of cruft, I learned all I needed was simple inline
formatting like their grey placeholder. I wish detailed formatting was easier
in TB but if TB interprets HTML anyway, doesn't it follow to use that
functionality for other elements like signatures? I tried but no joy, it's all
or nothing WYSIWYG, which is why I'm relating TB to Writer. 

With Writer, I can save formatting as HTML and monitor it in a browser; faster,
easier, and up to date, and I can copy the code something else like a sig. I'm
ignorant of the machinations behind save-as formatting, but I'm guessing losing
HTML/Web would have some connection to losing the entire format option. 

At the current level of complexity, I can see why people might hesitate to lose
a nice shortcut. Writer might have a place but not as a step towards a
full-blown HTML5 editor, that the majority concede is off target and not
trivial. I would call the current state somewhere in the middle and failing
there, and it could be simplified. 

After reading the 2015 and the deprecation link, HTML/Web just feels like a pit
trap that nobody is willing to fill in even though the war is over. I didn't
see any significant pressure not to. 

Good luck.

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