The lack of LiveConnect support is a Microsoft IE issue on Mac, not Apple's fault. Microsoft say that there is "no customer demand" for this feature apparently. We rang into the same problem with our editor (Ephox EditLive! for Java) about 18 months ago and we have managed to solve it using some JNI calls back into Mac OS X. So on the bright side it is one of our competitive advantages until Microsoft solves the problem :) The other way to solve the problem would be to get the content to be saved directly to and from your server from the editor (ie. using HTTP, WebDAV or FTP) but if you are looking for tight integration with web-based forms this approach has some issues.
Andrew Roberts CTO, Ephox http://www.ephox.com/ Peter Freitag wrote: > Although I haven't tested Ektron's flash editor on Mac, I do > think I know a > little bit about the issue your talking about (mainly because > we have run > into the same problem with our java applet wysiwyg editor, ActivEdit). > > The issue is that the Java API called LiveConnect (invented > by netscape) is > not implemented correctly on Mac OS X. The LiveConnect API > lets an applet > communicate with JavaScript. > > We are awaiting a fix for this, we have submitted a bug > report to Apple. > Just this week I tested Apple's java 1.4 jdk (currently in > alpha) and it > still has the same problems. > > _____________________________________________ > Pete Freitag > CTO, CFDEV.COM > http://www.cfdev.com/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:cms-list-admin@;cms-list.org]On > Behalf Of Michal Geci > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [cms-list] MacroMedia Contribute > Importance: High > > > I have discovered that this Ektron's flash based wysiwyg > editor doesn't > work on Macs (tested on iMac G4 with Mac OS X - Mozilla and > IE browsers) > because his Java runtime environment doesn't support Live > content (data > live streams)! > Can anybody confirm this? > > Thanks > > Bye > > > > Michal Geci > --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/13/2002 -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
