Swami -- check out the incredible CKEditor 3.0 -- I am working with it at this very moment... it uses the CDATA form to substitute a custom rich text window for a <textarea> tag.
It has everything you desire in an online rich text editor and more. Use it to make an "included" page for the user contributions yeah, I know - Javascript - but it is a thing of coding beauty... http://ckeditor.com/ not sure how the licensing works in your case but I think it might be pretty open..(dare I say free?) ------------------------- Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev 2009/11/7 Sivakatirswami <[email protected]> > But Firebug does not actually save edits back to the web server...I've used > it myself from time to time, but I don't see any place to enter FTP info for > uploading edited content. FB is amazingly useful if you are trained.... but > > I'm looking for an interface for very naive users. Click, edit, save, like > a wiki, but for an individual page, though they will face the "raw" html in > the div where we let them work. > > Should be pretty easy to build in iRev and I'll do it myself later this > week but I just did not want to re-invent this if someone else had done it > already. > > Andre... you had a simple CMS right? > > > > > > > Jim Ault wrote: > >> One of the tools that is really valuable to those doing web programming >> is: >> >> The free FireBug plugin for FIrefox. >> ( http://getfirebug.com/ ) >> Also a lite version for IE, Opera, and Safari >> >> This lets you drill down through all the parts of the web page being >> shown, and then make changes, or copy-paste, or... >> >> In the Firebug panel that pops up on the bottom half of the page, >> Go to 'html' tab, then right-click on "<html>", choose 'Copy Html', >> then paste where you like >> >> The right click menu choices are >> Copy Html >> Copy Inner Html >> Copy XPath >> Log Events >> Scroll into View >> New Attribute... >> Inspect in DOM tab >> ---------------------- >> Tons of features and info >> >> This is a very well-supported plugin (add on) and used by most anyone >> serious about web design/management. >> >> Jim Ault >> Las Vegas >> >> On Nov 7, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: >> >> I'm wondering if anyone has already build a page editor, kind of like a >>> wiki thing... where you are on an iRev page, you click a button and (in my >>> case) you get the html content for >>> >>> <div id="maincontent"> >>> >>> # all the content of the page minus fixed headers and footers etc. >>> # the area to be edited >>> >>> </div> >>> >>> put that into a form field for editing, then send it back and update the >>> page. >>> >>> I suspect someone has done this already and if so can you share your page >>> code? >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-revolution mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >>> >> >> Jim Ault >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> >> _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
