In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ulf Knoblich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Simon Fraser wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ulf Knoblich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I am working in an information extraction project and we need to
> > > retrieve the source code of a selection made by a
> > >
> > > user in his browser.
> > > Someone wrote a DLL for MSIE I think, but I don't know if a similar
> > > thing works for Netscape. I also tried the
> > >
> > > HotJava Component, which could be inserted as an applet, but it only
> > > supports HTML 3.2 and has some bugs. So I
> > >
> > > thought maybe we could use te Mozilla editor. Or is there a simpler way
> > > to do this?
> > > So, the user selects some text in a browser window, we want to get the
> > > start/end positions of this selection in the
> > >
> > > source code. And the solution should be as platform independent as
> > > possible. :)
> >
> > Try
> >
> > window.editorShell.getContentsAs("text/html", 1);
> >
> > See nsIEditorShell for the GetContentsAs method, and nsIDocumentEncoder
> > for the flags.
>
> Thanks for your quick answer, but I don't know where/how to try this. I
> tried it in JavaScript, then editorShell is 'undefined', I got the same
> trying to use JSObject in Java with Netscape 4.76. Or did you mean I
> should try this with Mozilla?
This is Mozilla-only, and will only work inside Mozilla's Composer
window.
Simon
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