Re: Questions about Quanta+ development

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 03:25, Saulo Soares de
Toledo<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello again :)
>
> It's good see Quanta development working.I want to congratulate the
> developers that have participated in this brilliant service!
>
> Anyway, I have some to talk about=A0 Actual Quanta+ stage. Please, read t=
hese
> considerations carefully, I hope they help in something.
>
>
> I will start with the more simple and maybe useless for now. The File Menu
> could be have
> =A0=A0=A0 - Save to Remove Server (Open an FTP lib to save remotely, coul=
d be
> implemented in future)
>
> The Edit Menu:
> =A0=A0=A0 - Select Parent Tag
> =A0=A0=A0 - Select Child
> =A0=A0=A0 - Insert Special Character (maybe here isn't the best place... =
but the
> option can be useful)
>
> The View Menu:
> =A0=A0=A0 - Hide All Panels / Show All Panels
> =A0=A0=A0 - Zoom In/Zoom Out (see the comment below)
> =A0=A0=A0 - Code view / Preview View / Code and preview view (see the com=
ment
> below)
>
> Here I start my questions about graphic mode on Quanta. How web developme=
nt
> application, have an integrated preview window it's useful. Open the brow=
ser
> all the times I change some code to preview it's annoying (not so much wh=
ile
> coding in PHP, JSP etc, but editing HTML code...). I think Quanta could h=
ave
> a flap only to preview the resulf of the code using gecko (isn't it used =
in
> Konqueror too?). Gecko already have zoom in/out utility (Control + mouse
> whell) and could appear here on Quanta only to preview the results. And w=
hen
> we have developers to graphical edit we could think in try this too... It=
's
> difficult put Gecko how a "Tool View" to preview the files for this relea=
se?
Adding such a preview view would be pretty easy (however we would use
KHTML or QtWebKit).
The problem I see is how to get the correct url to display?
But actually I'd prefer an external browser for a preview for the
following reasons:
- I have a dualhead setup
- I *need* firebug
However refreshing this external browser with one keypress would be cool.

> I am pleased to see the IDE, but with one thing I am disappointed: Where =
are
> the web authoring tools? The table insert windows, the HTML DTD change
> utility, the link manager... well, where is all web code?
Come on - no one said Quanta is finished!

> I have a lot of other considerations to do, and ideas to share, but I thi=
nk
> for now It's enough. For now, I want remove these doubts to try help in
> something more. :-)
Our main problem currently is the lack of developers. If you have only idea=
s how
something could be improved you have to find someone to implement them...


Niko