Adam, in ActivEdit 3.0 we added a bunch of regular expressions, and parsers to clean up Word content pasted into the control, it's not perfect but it does get rid of lots of extraneous markup when you paste from Word. Are you using Version 3?
As for the HTML that ActivEdit generates (actually it's the ActiveX control that generates the HTML in most cases), it is valid HTML 3.2. Many people prefer XHTML output these days, and we do have a CFX tag that will convert HTML 3.2 or 4 into XHTML or vise versa, if your interested let me know. The next version of ActivEdit will address these issues further. You can also set a stylesheet for use within activedit via the stylesheet attribute. _____________________________________________ Pete Freitag CTO, CFDEV.COM http://www.cfdev.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:33 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: MM Rich Text Editor - WAS: RE: Macromedia Contribute I'd like to see an editor that only defines classes in a div or a span, and which provides a default style sheet. The extent of the html would be very simple <a>, <br />, <hr /> and XHTML compliant. One problem I see with this is pulling in word documents, or old HTML with tables and invalid markup. We're currently using ActiveEdit, and even though it's working well, I have this really uneasy feeling about the HTML it's producing. It just completely goes against the concept of separating content from style, but I just can't think of a suitable alternative to doing it this way until we can: a. Go through all of our old content stripping out all of the markup, and then restylizing it using the new editor's classes. b. Make the decision to never paste word documents, or old html into the editor without first "cleansing" it in notepad, and then restylizing it within the editor. That would be a complete administrative nightmare. Is anyone else feeling the same concerns, and has anyone taken measures to address this? I'd be interested in hearing what you did. Adam. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:00 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: MM Rich Text Editor - WAS: RE: Macromedia Contribute > > > I would think that given those abilities that integrating it into an > intranet security context would provide functionality for permissions. > Personally, I'd rather have something that lets me control file/edit > permissions and simply sticks to editing capabilities. I want a > super-form-control more than a content manager - I'll handle > the content > management as it applies to my specific application. > > Is there a version of the DRK2 Rich Text Editor online anywhere that I > could try before I buy? I'd like to be able to make an > informed decision > before jumping into something. > > Although from the looks of ActivEdit it's going to be hard to beat. > > Joshua Miller > Head Programmer / IT Manager > Garrison Enterprises Inc. > www.garrisonenterprises.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (704) 569-9044 ext. 254 > > ************************************************************** > ********** > ************* > Any views expressed in this message are those of the > individual sender, > except where the sender states them to be the views of > Garrison Enterprises Inc. > > This e-mail is intended only for the individual or entity to > which it is > addressed and contains information that is private and > confidential. If > you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you > have received this e-mail in error please delete it immediately and > advise us by return e-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************** > ********** > ************* > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:32 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Macromedia Contribute > > > There are built-in controls to limit users to a particular directory; > disallow editing of scripts/includes/forms/ or even anything but text; > allow or disallow the ability to assign css styles, and disable the > <font> tag and even inline css styles. You can limit users to > only edit > pages, create pages based on templates, , create pages by copying any > existing page, or make anything from scratch. And you can > define a file > size limit to how large of a graphic can be used on a page (in KB, not > dimensions.) > > That's pretty much what you can control. You can create > groups of users > with different permissions. Other than that, it's not really > extensible > for permissions from what I can see. > > -Kevin > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kay Smoljak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:30 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Macromedia Contribute > > > > > > Samuel R. Neff wrote: > > > If that's what you want you can take a look at > > > MM's DRK2 which has a Rich Text Editor component for Flash. It > > can easily > > > be wrapped into a stand-alone widget for embedding in HTML and > > an also be > > > extended. > > > > Does anyone have this, who would like to comment on how > extendable it > > is? For example. if I wanted to limit the html editing controls my > > users had (no fonts or colours, for example, or only stylesheet > > classes) could I do this? Or say I wanted to change the > colour of the > > component to match my app... > > > > Thanks, > > Kay. > > > > > > -- > > Kay Smoljak > > ---------------------------- > > http://kay.smoljak.com > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
