karim

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ScribbleSquid tries to help new writers -- with one glaring omission (Download Squad)

Feb 3rd 2010 10:23AM Great advice, Erez. I'll looking into EtherPad as a possibility with RTL support in the back of my mind. Thanks again!

ScribbleSquid tries to help new writers -- with one glaring omission (Download Squad)

Feb 3rd 2010 9:56AM Erez,

I understand your criticisms completely. I was a little afraid that writers might balk at the idea of not having a tool for actually doing the writing on the site. My biggest concern with that, though, is that web text editors are mostly pretty awful and most writers (I thought) would want to stick with whatever tool they currently use. So I focused on making the import more robust.

As far as priorities go, my intent is really to give writers who work in writing groups a way to share the stories with other members of the group without having to mess with mass emails, tons of comments from people divided into multiple emails. ScribbleSquid is really meant to combine all annotations and comments from lots of people in one place. It was never really meant to be a tool for doing the actual writing since there are *so* many tools out there for doing that already and writers, again, are mostly particular about the tool they use (and, again, web WYSIWYG editors are really kind of crappy).

I'm curious, though. If an editor were to be added, would it suffice to have it be a plain text editor or would it have to be a WYSIWYG editor?