Browsers don't have good controls for entering rich text.
So you're left with trampling over the input experience with a lot of javascript. It breaks things like the "it's all text" extension, and generally will only work for the subset of configurations that is tested for.
If browsers had decent html-editing widgets, it might work better. I've yet to see any form of rich text editing that doesn't lead to frustration (never mind works on mobile touch etc).
Google has an interesting solution for G+ -- they've broken plain text entry (and plain text paste of long texts) without giving any benefits of rich text entry. But I'm sure it's great if you live in a bubble where no-one's used an actual text editor, and gwt is the best set of widget anyone's heard of. Facebook on mobile (in a mobile web browser) is pretty awful too, if you try to use the completion-options for tagging friends.
Come to think of it, I'd only be half as upset with g+ if one could simply upload a utf-8 text file into all of the comment/edit boxes.
So you're left with trampling over the input experience with a lot of javascript. It breaks things like the "it's all text" extension, and generally will only work for the subset of configurations that is tested for.
If browsers had decent html-editing widgets, it might work better. I've yet to see any form of rich text editing that doesn't lead to frustration (never mind works on mobile touch etc).
Google has an interesting solution for G+ -- they've broken plain text entry (and plain text paste of long texts) without giving any benefits of rich text entry. But I'm sure it's great if you live in a bubble where no-one's used an actual text editor, and gwt is the best set of widget anyone's heard of. Facebook on mobile (in a mobile web browser) is pretty awful too, if you try to use the completion-options for tagging friends.
Come to think of it, I'd only be half as upset with g+ if one could simply upload a utf-8 text file into all of the comment/edit boxes.