We are big fans of tinymce - the open source text editor that we use on text entry boxes -  it lets us all feel that we are using a Word Processor on the web.... which is such a familiar and visual experience...

It's great that we can use and see while we write....

blockquotes....

Bold Text, Italic text...

  1. Numbered Lists
  • Bulleted lists 

and so on...

Problem is...   It's very sizeable in download... adding lots of javascript to the weight of every page... and possibly causing Internet Explorer to hang...

Trouble is that 95% of our users aren't posting but just browsing... and we don't want them carrying all this weight around while they wander the site.

So what we propose is to make it's use optional... providing a checkbox to decide whether you want to use it or not...

We'd just use a simple text box for normal posting that would make each page load much more simple... using some simple text tags for creating bold or italicised text etc... Markdown is our favoured option... so that you'd create bold text by doing *this*  or creating a blockquote like

> this

So I'm just asking the regulars how they'd feel about the choice  -  we won't take it away but would make it optional for forum & comment posting.

Let us know here with your comments... thanks!

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