On: Re-thinking WYSIWYG editors for Web CMS

[anthonyb]

I think the article has it exactly backwards. Start with the link, and the popup part should prompt you for the plain text part. ie. I paste in "http://example.com/ and the javascript/tinymce pops up a "Link Text >" prompt.

Much more intuitive IMHO than highlighting things which aren't obviously links, or adding extra syntax.

[jamesrcole → anthonyb]

it should work both ways. sometimes you think of the link text first, url second. other times it's the other way around.