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Old 06-14-2018, 08:05 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
It's only a question of when Book View goes away, not if. It's become a boat anchor when it comes to Sigil development. It's buggy and it's increasingly unmanagable. It's fine for everyone to bring up things they still use BV for (mainly so alternatives can be suggested), but don't get your hopes up that Book View will get a reprieve. That ship has sailed. Book View is on borrowed time.

I don't formally object to its overpressure (at worst, I wouldn't update Sigli), but this feature is really powerful.

For me BV exists for 2 reasons:
1) Accessibility and ease for neophytes. I am interested in HTML, CSS and how an ePub works, just because BV was doing strange things to me. Even if I am in favour of changing this approach and minimizing it, we must not forget it.
2) It is so much easier and more enjoyable to read and write your text when it is formatted.
And for basic and fast text editing, BV's whatever limit are not annoying.

I am not dev, but I understand that BV, as it is today, is a brake on Sigil development.
So okay, to find alternatives (the non-dev that I am would say: recoded it, (but I know it's much more complicated than that)), reduce its scope, no longer put it in as much before and make it a secondary feature.
Doing anything else, rethinking it differently, like an editable preview.

But the deleted without alternative, here's what scares me and what I object to. (preview as it already exists, is not a good alternative)
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