Larry Yudelson writes:
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| The killer writing environment
|
| For a while, Dave[1] has been talking about making the Web a killer
| writing environmet. Let's do it, without waiting for MS!
|
| The status quo
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| There's the MS rich-edit control -- a partial step in the write
| direction.
|
| The problems with the status quo
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| 1) It's Microsoft's game. I, for one, don't want to give a client a
| CMS that requires that they use a MS product.
| 2) Microsoft isn't playing the game anymore. There's been no advance
| on the toolkit.
|
| Let's create a rich-edit control for Mozilla
|
| Business case
| Rich-edit control becomes cross-platform
| We can prod MS into upgrading
| Technical requirements
| plug-in compatible with MS control. There should be one line of
| javascript that would drop in either the MS control or the new
| Mozilla control based on a simple browser detection
| Expandable -- Let's move it forward to include spell checkers or
| whatever else
|...
<http://disintegrate.manilasites.com/discuss/msgReader$8>
[1] Presumably he is referring to Dave Winer
<http://dave.editthispage.com/myNameIsDaveWiner>.
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Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla UI Design component default assignee thing
<http://mozilla.org/>
