On Sun, 19 May 2002, Andreas Raab wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've often found myself wanting to build basically entire Swiki books > right from Squeak without having to resort to a browser. While it's nice > that anyone can edit these pages "just" using the browser I'd rather > have some sort of local editor where I can just type text, add emphasis, > drop in morphs etc.
Indeed. > In short, I hate this idea of an "editing mode" - > it's so countrary to all of Squeaks goals. Hmm. But it *is* practical in many cases :) > So I was wondering: How much of an effort would it be to provide > something like a "swiki book editor" that does exactly that - namely > just giving you a text editor which you can use to edit stuff and then > translate its contents into "swiki terms" so that they can be uploaded > accordingly. The biggest bit would be dealing with arbitrary HTML, if you allowed that. If you deal with a more restrictive syntax, it would be much much easier. And even that isn't tough if you don't have people adding arbitrary HTML from the "edit mode" interface. > Anyone ever thought about this?! Indeed. For PWS swiki I had an in squeak swiki editor that used SwikiSyntax (i.e., an edit mode). Worked great. Roger Whitney's XP class developed ObjectWeb which is pretty much a Morphic Swiki, but, IIRC, they were more focused on sharing morphs than generating text. Cheers, Bijan Parsia.
