On Tuesday, Oct 21, 2003, at 23:19 Europe/Rome, Geoff Howard wrote:
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 14:07 Europe/Rome, Arje Cahn wrote:I'm dreaming of an open source-Javascript based-crossbrowser-SubEthaEdit-kinda editing tool.MultiLinotype?If we put the document inside a 'contenteditable' field, and let some Mozilla/IE compatible object communicate with the server in the background, shouldn't that be perfectly possible?I'd rather use designMode/Midas-like approach of having a white canvas (an iframe in html) to play with. contenteditable tends to be a little too granular for free-form editing.
It's possible, yes. Both mozilla and IE have HTTP subrequest components accessible from the javascript layer (actually mozilla cloned the IE ones, so portability is not a big issue there)
Would you really want that? I thought we were pursuing this as a tool for a virtual hackathon - wouldn't you rather a better editor? I'd think a jEdit or Eclipse would make for easier implementation _and_ be a more useful environment.
I don't know.
doable? digest this first
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/sun98operational.html
and come back to me. This is the list of algorithms that they implemented in SubEthaEdit.
Been reading it. Not yet digested... :)
:-)
I just finished the section describing the star architecture of Jupiter which drastically simplified things. I also wonder if a sort of "row level locking" (well, actually line-level-locking) wouldn't do even more.
I had the experience of writing on the same line.
I have the disadvantage of not having ever seen/used SubEthaEdit -- is it really that useful to be able to have different people editing the same line simultaneously?
Yes it is, it is amazing, it's like you never used an editor before.
Scary to death, if I have to be honest. But *very* intellectually stimulating.We might have to put every letter inside a div tag so we can insert them in strange locations while typing somewhere else, but what the hell, if it works... :))
Anyone in it?
I think that would be monumentally harder and not any more useful than an existing editor which already has a Memento type of architecture (which designMode and friends may but don't expose do they?)
memento-type?
Count me in, but this is going to require *massive* thinking, expecially on how to reduce the problems of latency over the network.
The last thing I need is something else to play with, but I'm interested. I don't suppose SubEthaEdit is coming out with support for other platforms?
No, the state this explicitly.
-- Stefano.
