Expanding the Wysiwyg Editor

One important area that I believe needs consideration is the tools for adding text and images.

Allow me to expand a bit. Currently in an online text editor if I place an image or a piece of text they get allocated a value of img… or p. This means to do anything creative with that data I have to style the img or p tag with css. But it stops there. Unless of course I apply a containing div to my post. We also don’t often have the chance of deciding which elements to apply. For instance to create a post I could substitute the img and p tags with dl tags.

Having read this you might be wondering what planet I am on! Well, Wordpress and many cms’ have been developed to encompass a wide range of layouts through the use of plugins. A couple of things could be an online shop and a gallery. If there was someway of hard coding markup into the template that a developer could hang things onto we could make it very easy to create a huge variety of plugins. I am not sure how it would work or whether it is possible - I am not a developer, but is it possible to create a php tag that allows images to be given tags in certain post/categories. Similarly would it be possible to do the same with p tags. You could then tell your template to allocate 5 tags to the category called shop. The tags could be title, description, price, image, thumbnail. I don’t know how you would translate this to the post and category but I hope you guys are beginning to pick up what I am thinking about. If this was possible, we could create a piece of software that could be developed and deployed very easily for a number of apps!

Any thoughts please?