[ishi]

Cute, I like it.

One thought: although the text area is cool for us geeks, what value does it add for the typical user over a more structured data entry approach? I think the text area leaves too many ways for the user to make mistakes.

[jgallagher11]

This might be the case. We're going to do lots of user testing to see what issues typical users have with it.

If we detect the user is making a lot of mistakes, we'll fall back to showing them a traditional form with fields.

[zupa]

Maybe you could use an excel like table as well if the textarea makes a lot trouble. (I like it though..) Nice job!

[jgallagher11]

Thanks. That's a nice idea. Long term, we're going to format the text area so people can copy any paste any list format from almost any source - word, excel, csv, tab delimited etc.

[azov]

there's a lot of value. A chunk of text is in many ways much easier to deal with then a bunch of fields in a form.

Changing the order of items is trivial, you can copy and paste stuff, it's easy to email the whole thing to someone for review (say, before publishing)... That's for the typical user. For geeks there's more: it's easy to keep archives of old versions, easy to see what's changed, trivial to backup... text IS powerful.