Re: [OSCOM] Interactive content and editor interfaces

On Dec 28, 2004, at 2:42 AM, Michael Wechner wrote:

> It seems to me that WYSIWYG editors such as BXE and Kupu are gaining 
> acceptance re "static" content, but HTML forms are hitting back re 
> "interactive" content.
>
> By "interactive" content I mean for instance inserting a date provided 
> by a calendar or tagging words based on a thesaurus or categorizing 
> the document within the content itself or adding images or links from 
> a central repository.
>
> Editors such as BXE and Xopus provide a lookup functionality which 
> helps
> to cover such issues to a cerain level, but it seems to me that common 
> interfaces are actually missing and we should go one step further.

The Kupu "drawer" expects that system to describe itself to the editor 
via an abstract content model.  Basically, some discoverable XML.  
Based on this, different kinds of UIs and actions are presented in the 
editor, including content changes (which are transmitted in the 
background to the server.)

Is this abstract model the kind of thing you are talking about?

--Paul