I believe someone on the editor team has an RFE (request for enahncement) bug regarding this "HTMLArea" feature, though I couldn't find it doing a some quick queries since I probably wasn't using the right key words for lookup.
Technically speaking, I think we have all the pieces we need to do such a feature, the hard part is working out the event passing/propogation scheme, source packaging on form submit, and security issues. --== Kin ==-- Martijn wrote: > Is it possible to embed the composer in an HTML page, so that it will > replace a textarea? > > Let me explain what i'm looking for. > I'm making a very simple free online content management system. The > CMS gets the fields from a database. When the field is of > type:LONGTEXT (or similar) it shows a textarea where the user can type > his text. Sometimes HTML codes should be used, but I don't want the > user to type the HTML code itself. So I'm looking for a > component/JAVA-applet/XUL/... that will replace this textarea and will > show a simpel HTML editor. > M$ has an activeX component (DHTMLedit) that will do this job, but > unfortunaly it only works in IE. > I'm looking for a Mozilla equivalent. > > Has anybody got any tips? > > Martijn > >
