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The main thing I miss is "It's All Text!", which the creator / maintainer indicated was impossible to port away from Legacy, in no small part due to the securit
by Twirrim 9y ago
The main thing I miss is "It's All Text!", which the creator / maintainer indicated was impossible to port away from Legacy, in no small part due to the security aspects of it.
I really, truly, hate inputting anything more than a couple of lines in to websites. Worse when you're fighting WYSIWYG editors, fixed box widths. Even worse than that is when you spend 20 minutes filling in the box, hit submit and find your session timed out.
"It's All Text" allowed me to just click an "edit" button beside the text box, go edit the thing in my favourite text editor, hit save and then go click submit in the browser. If the site screwed up somehow, the text was still open in my text editor.
- throwanem 9y agoIt's not precisely impossible to port, but it's a lot more complicated; in practice it requires a separate platform-specific executable, registered with the browser, to marshal between the browser and the editor. I miss it, too. But not enough to reimplement it, at least not yet.
- adia 9y agoI was a heavy It's All Text! user, too, and fortunately, an alternative exists, implemented just as you describe. See: https://github.com/jlebon/textern https://github.com/jlebon/textern
- jasonkostempski 9y agoWhy not just type in your editor of choice, copy, paste? I started doing this when I got stuck using Outlook online (worst editing and reading experience ever or worst IMAP experience ever, hard to choose). Is saving a keystroke or 2, maybe even losing a few when things go wrong, worth the extra dependency and attack surface in your browser?