I have a project I¹m starting for a friend who uses a scripting metaphor with clients to counsel them in relationships. They each write a script of a previous argument they had, making it look like a play or television script. He then comments on certain paragraphs, suggesting better ways of approaching the situation etc. I was thinking this would be an easy and fun Rails project, rather than have his clients use some stand alone script writing software and emailing him separate scripts to constantly edit.
I have this dream of taking the beautiful text entry method of Google Docs (formerly Writely.com R.I.P.) and throwing a script-like CSS format over it, with character names and actions centered in bold, and dialog left justified etc. I¹m sure you¹ve all seen a script before... When I look at the source for a Google Doc, I get to the point where my document starts and it shows an iframe with no source! Does anyone know how they are accepting input without a text field/area? Or are they using a large text area but have the CSS so it displays no border? It can¹t be a large text area though, because the page shows the formatted text as I type it... DOH! I assume that they probably use an ³on change² event to fire the new/edited text up to the server, with a document save every so often (the red ³Saving...² In the corner). But how are they taking input AND showing formatted output on the same line/area? Thanks, -=R --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
