Re: Thoughts on interface modes / multiple guest addresses

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 01:01:36PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 01:29:36AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:53:49 +1100
> > David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
[snip]
> > > I've now updated to cover some more things, and considering the
> > > possibility of multiple guest addresses..  Turns out etherpad doesn't
> > > really do tables, so it's two sections for the two suggested modes,
> > > with matching subheadings.
> > 
> > It does, but I disabled the plug-in as you reported an issue which
> > turned out to be https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/17598
> > instead, and I was trying to sort out other possible reasons.
> > 
> > I just re-enabled it, tables are available from the toolbar, there's
> > an icon just left of "Font Family". Note that it's still beta:
> > 
> >   https://www.npmjs.com/package/ep_data_tables
> > 
> > and it has a couple of glitches. I just found one (which I didn't debug
> > or report yet): don't start a page with a table, always write something
> > before, otherwise it gets duplicated every time you load the document.
> > 
> > Other than that it looks reasonably robust to me, maybe quickly try with
> > a test pad first but I think it should be usable.
> 
> Great, thanks.

It definitely has some jank - sometimes cursor / delete / backspace
don't go where you expect.  It's usable, though.

I've updated this page to use a table.  I've also added what the
current behaviour is (both "local mode" and normal) for comparison,
along with some other revisions.

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