Hello, Let me quickly introduce myself : I discovered abiword a few months ago, and found that a so small and well designed app like this had a lot of solid features (compared to the 150 mb of msword/openoffice/staroffice...), making it a tool of choice -imho- for web based work.
In my spare time, I create websites and dynamic tools for letting users update their websites easily. For this purpose, I use Zope (zope.org). What is currently lacking in most opensource (even closed one) web content management systems, is a good wysiwyg text editor. I don't really believe in crappy java applets. I believe in abiword :) So what would be nice to have in abiword, is some way to link it to a web site server. Zope has http, ftp, xml-rpc, webdav, etc... But it could be quite cool to have a more generic system that could work like this : 1. the user authenticate himself on his site, clicks on an "edit this page" link onto his site, he then gets an html text edit area. he can type there some content using the stupid text area. 2. Here comes the cool part : under the text area, there is a link that says "Edit this box with AbiWord" 3. The users clicks, and with some magic, AbiWord is launched, with the current text in it (probably in either html or xml). Would it be possible to define some custom "link" like abiword://mysite.com/myfolder/mypage that would lauch abiword for this pseudo "protocol" ? 4. When the user has finished editing, he clicks on "save", and the file is sent back to te server using http post. This way, we could replace any text area very easily. It would work with any server, and we could use AbiWord to edit content with any dynamic system. Does this make sense? I hope I posted to the right list and I didn't bother, altough I have no real idea how it could be implemented in Abi (maybe some import/export plugin?) Philippe ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
