At 12:54 PM -0400 5/5/2000, Dave Watts wrote:
>
>When you say an "advanced browser", what exactly do you mean? IE 4+ on
>Windows, or something more?
There are several "browser applications" (for lack of a better name)
available for that require IE 4 or IE 5 on a win platform.
One of these is eWebEditPro available in the tag gallery at:
http://www2.allaire.com/developer/gallery/index.cfm?ObjectID=12741&noc
ache=yes
I don't mean to single this one out, only use it as an example to
illustrate the application.
(My CF host, zanova, provides a similar application called iEdit).
These "browser applications" do things like emulating a WP to create
HTML content.
select some displayed text, hit a toolbar button and the text is immediately
redisplayed as bold (or whatever) just like a WP. But in fact the data is
being displayed/saved as HTML markup.
The browser is be extended somehow, because you cannot do this within
standard constructs of HTML (manipulate selected text within a
textarea, for example).
You can do the same thing with Java.... but these solutions are usually
browser & platform independent... they don't require windows & IE
I guess my concerns/questions are:
Why do they require Windows & IE?
Why do they require the versions of the browsers that are
integrated into the OS?
Are they using OS or browser features (not available to Java)?
Does this provide a path to the OS, through the browser, that is an open
invitation to hackers & viruses?
TIA
Dick
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