http://camendesign.com/ode_to_textarea

It’s a client problem, not an NNF one. No one can click that button but you. If you weren’t ready, your problem. I’m not here to nanny users on how to use a button.

What you type is what you get. NNFs markup syntax is designed to not need previewing. You will get what you expect to get, and it will copy and paste back to the same text it came from. There is no black box that will munge your text to fear here, only your browser.

You could copy the page's text into your favourite text editor and edit it there. What’s stopping anybody doing this? Should I have to code such a feature into NNF; ask all the text-editors to provide a browser plugin so I can add twenty buttons to NNF for "edit in x". Of course not, this isn’t like those annoying share buttons. :)

You have got to let go of this notion that we have to preview everything before we commit it to the computer, that is bad design. That is a messed up system that beats users into complete fear and distrust of the computer to the point that they can’t write text online without the comfort of a preview to show them the same damn thing they just typed back to them!

I’m interested in everybody else’s reasoning either way about this subject as a general "forum-design" topic, but not ever is NNF going to get a preview. If it does, it will have outright failed its objectives.

Perhaps we should change the wording? :P I don’t like "submit", it's too scary looking.