I also think it would be great to have the editing feature within the
browser rather than a separate interface, so I can just start typing in
the middle of a document I have just downloaded and save it. Then when I
want full edit features I can select the 'edit toolbar' option from the
menu and I have all the functions of editor.
So what I am looking for is editor to extend the browser rather than be
its own application.
Then I can throw away my word processor and use HTML as my standard
document format and my browser as part of my office environment.
Extending that train of thought it would be nice for editor to have some
api's for extending its functionality so that with only a plugin it
could be used as a spreadsheat program and save the output in XML.
Matthew Thomas wrote:
> Larry Yudelson writes:
> |
> | 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
> |
> | There's the MS rich-edit control -- a partial step in the write
> | direction.
> |
> | The problems with the status quo
> |
> | 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>.
>
>
