Hi Simon,

> On 10 Sep 2018, at 13:05, Simon Urli <simon.u...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm working on the roadmap issues related to the inline edition with WYSIWYG 
> editor for macro content and macro parameters.

Cool :) We've been waiting for a long time about this feature! See below.

> The first step is to add a flag to allow user specify that a content or a 
> parameter can be edited inline with the WYSIWYG editor.
> The second step is to allow the CKEditor to detect where the content and/or 
> parameters should be edited.
> Let's take the exampe of a simple macro without any parameter, which 
> currently produces this code:
> 
> <div class="box infomessage">
>  <div class="title">
>    <span class="icon info"></span>
>    some title
>  </div>
>  Some content
> </div>
> 
> We propose (me & Marius) to ask users to add a wrapper with a specific class 
> around the content to tell the editor it should only allow editing this 
> content, e.g.:
> 
> <div class="box infomessage">
>  <div class="title">
>    <span class="icon info"></span>
>    some title
>  </div>
>  <span class="editable-content">Some content</span>
> </div>

By “users”, I guess you mean macro developers?

So if I understand you well, you’re not planning to add a getter/setters to the 
Macro descriptor, to tell that the macro content contains wiki markup and that 
it should be editable in the WYSIWYG editor?

Is that because you want to be finer-grained and have macro content which can 
have parts editable with the WYSIWYG while having other parts of the content 
not editable (for example)?

Technically Macros don’t generate HTML, only XDOM. So in order to make it 
easier for java macro developers, I’d suggest to introduce some new wrapping 
Block to indicate this information. We might need something similar for wiki 
macros too, to make it more reusable and typed.

> About parameters, our idea was to define a new metadata attribute and to ask 
> users to use it for specifying the content is editable, such as for a 
> parameter named foo:
> 
> <span class="editable-content" data-parameter="foo">my foo parameter 
> value</span>

What’s your idea for editing parameters requiring WYSIWYG? How do you present 
them in the UI? Do you have any mockup?

> However I don't know right now how the editor would manage cases such as:
> <span class="editable-content">Some content with <span 
> class="editable-content" data-parameter="myparameter">a 
> parameter</span></span>
> 
> So:
>  1. Do you agree on the usage of a class named "editable-content" which would 
> be used as a tag to allow inline edition?

Small details, there’s already the “contenteditable” notion that exists (see 
https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/HTML/Attributs_universels/contenteditable)
 so “editable-content” is quite close. Maybe we should have something more 
xwiki-specific? or more WYSIWYG-specific? Like “editable-wysiwyg” or 
“wysiwyg-editable”.

My main comment is what I put above: how do we make it easy for macro 
developers to specify this information.

>  2. WDYT about using a data-parameter and this class for inline editing of 
> parameters?

Before answering that part, I would need to understand what’s the proposal in 
term of UI.

Note that the main use case is for content but it’s nice if you can also 
support parameters. Now, accepting markup in parameters is not really a great 
use case IMO and is usually a design issue so I’m not sure we should spend that 
much time in supporting that. WDYT?

The only macro parameter I know ATM that supports markup is the “title” param 
of the {{box}} macro and I think it’s badly designed. Note: if you check the 
recent {{figure}} macro, I implemented this need by having a {{figureCaption}} 
nested macro. 

BTW this raises a question, will you support WYSIWYG editing of nested macros?

Thanks
-Vincent

> Thanks,
> Simon

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