Re: [Editors] Re: [OSCOM] htmlarea project discontinued?

Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:

> Ian Bicking wrote:
>
>> I'm not even sure if there *is* a Javascript community.
>
Same here. I don't know of any efforts to get JS people together, 
compared to what I know of the Python community JS developers seems to 
be a group consisting mainly of newbies and people with a very specific 
commercial target (e.g. Mozilla developers). I don't think there's 
anything like a code repository, a central place to discuss language 
issues, hardly any serious mailinglists, etc.
This may have to do with the origin of the language, of course, since 
the language *itself* is not 'open-source' (which Python of course is).

> at the same time, the amount of talented open source javascript 
> developers seems to be fairly small. it must have something to do with 
> itch scratching and status issues (javascript got a bad rap by early 
> transgressions, just like flash)
>
I think things might be changing though, since some quite serious JS 
projects are starting to emerge (such as Google maps, Gmail, etc.).

> and from what i understand, kupu has plans to be a textarea 
> replacement one day

It rather depends on what you mean by 'textarea replacement', but I 
think it's already possible to use it as such. A couple of versions ago 
I added some code to allow writing the contents of the Kupu iframe to a 
hidden input field that is generated on-the-fly, and Duncan (iirc) added 
a source edit option that uses a textarea, I think including some code 
that makes the textarea appear if the browser doesn't support rich-text 
editing. The only thing different from most 'textarea replacement' 
editors is that those are generally somewhat easier to 'attach' to an 
HTML file, Kupu has quite some dependencies on the content and structure 
of the HTML file it's embedded in.

If I'm missing something here concerning why Kupu is not really a 
'text-area replacement', please let me know, I'd definitely be 
interested in making some modifications to support more usecases!

Cheers,

Guido