HTML 5 will be ubiquitous when? 2015? I'm telling you guys, rich text done right could be big. No one has a rich text component on the web that's nearly good as a desktop rich text UI.
Next time you are using your lame bug tracking tool and are attaching a screen-shot, think about it. I'd paste a nice image of what I'm talking about here, but I can't because this forum doesn't have a good editor :) On Mar 24, 11:35 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Considering what's doable today with average browsers and JavaScript > libraries, allow me to remain hopeful but skeptical in regard to this > being any sort of catalyst for RIA's. Because while JavaFX, Flash and > Silverlight evolves, so does HTML and browsers. People are no longer > getting their hands dirty with raw unpredictable JavaScript but are > using libraries like JQuery, Dojo, Prototype, ExtJS > etc:http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/samples.html > > And last I checked, both file upload and copy-paste is receiving major > work in the HTML 5 spec:http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ > > RIA widgets and better interoperability is fine, but are we really > willing to fore-go the features of hypermedia we're now so used to, > such as addressability and uniformity? > > /Casper > > On 24 Mar., 17:39, Alexey Zinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Just checked, and you're quite right. > > > Alexey > > > --- On Tue, 3/24/09, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > From: phil swenson <[email protected]> > > > Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Getting Google to embrace JavaFX -> Idea > > > for Java / JavaFX coders with time on their hands... > > > To: "The Java Posse" <[email protected]> > > > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 12:23 PM > > > You can't do clipboard paste though. Or drag from file > > > system. > > > > On Mar 24, 9:11 am, Alexey Zinger > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yahoo Mail does this kind of rich text editor > > > (including dragging images off other browser windows). I > > > haven't looked very deeply into it yet, but it seems to > > > be done primarily with JavaScript. > > > > > Alexey > > > > > --- On Tue, 3/24/09, phil swenson > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > From: phil swenson <[email protected]> > > > > > Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Getting Google to > > > embrace JavaFX -> Idea for Java / JavaFX coders with > > > time on their hands... > > > > > To: "The Java Posse" > > > <[email protected]> > > > > > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 10:53 AM > > > > > Uploaders are all over the place in Flash and I > > > really doubt > > > > > that Java > > > > > can do a better job than Flash. Flash's > > > install is > > > > > nicer, faster, > > > > > smaller, and has more market share. > > > > > > If you really want to provide something > > > interesting I'd > > > > > build a rich > > > > > text editor that can be easily embedded in a web > > > app. > > > > > > Should have all the standard features for rich > > > text plus > > > > > something > > > > > that flash can't do: paste images from the > > > clipboard > > > > > (and if possible > > > > > drag images from the filesystem). > > > > > > I have been requesting clipboard paste of the > > > flash team > > > > > for a long > > > > > time and they still haven't delivered in > > > Flash 10. > > > > > Flex doesn't have > > > > > a decent rich text editor component, it's > > > pathetic with > > > > > absolutely no > > > > > image support. The javascript rich edit > > > controls are OK, > > > > > but there is > > > > > huge room for improvement (basic stuff like end > > > key goes to > > > > > end of > > > > > line, tab works right). And they of course can > > > never do an > > > > > image > > > > > paste from clipboard. > > > > > > This control would be great for an email editor, > > > capturing > > > > > screen- > > > > > shots for a bug tracker, etc. The one thing I > > > don't > > > > > like about gmail > > > > > is I have to add images via the clunky attachment > > > > > interface. I want > > > > > to take a screen-shot and drop it straight in the > > > email and > > > > > be able to > > > > > re-size it directly in the editor. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
