(commenting on the editor stuff only)

Le Jeudi, 9 oct 2003, � 23:28 Europe/Zurich, Stefano Mazzocchi a �crit :

...I see two potential types of editor:

 - plain text
 - stuctured text

Rich text is one of the potential structured text.

I dislike "textarea" as a style if an string input field. it doesn't feel right: a textarea is the style of an editor....

OTOH being able to edit (wiki-like?) text from a plain textarea must be possible as a fallback for when people don't have the right browser, mobile stuff, etc. It is certainly easy to do but must be taken into account.


...In linotype you have Wysiwig and markup, introducing a wiki mode is in my todo list.

Do you envision a server-side format converter for this?
I'm asking because a good birdirectional wiki-to-xhtml conversion component in java would be very useful. The current chaperon stuff doesn't provide this.


...I would love to have linotype as a cform widget with pluggable editing modes that share content: so that you can write your wiki text, then click on the wysiwig tag and edit content like that, back and forward, you can cut/paste stuff in and out

now, what do you think?

I like this - if this is used for our docs later on, being able to cut/paste wiki stuff in and out would be very useful for offline work.


-Bertrand

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