Re: wysiwyg editors

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On Thursday 24 June 2004 6:07 am, Matt wrote:
> > Don't forget the worthwhile: HTMLArea 3
>
> Hrm... very nice. Thanks for pointing it out.
>
> Looks like it tries to produce XHTML too, even though it doesn't
> advertise that. Well, <br /> anyway - it does produce depreciated
> <font> tags and according to the forum does no-nos like nesting
> <table>s inside <p>s.
>
> How strict is netWindows about XHTML? Does a document have to be
> valid, or just well-formed?

netWindows doesn't every run a validator over your inline 
constructors, if that's what you mean. We don't ever try to impose 
any restrictions that the browser wouldn't reasonably enforce since, 
after all, we're piggy-backing on the browser's infrastructure.

There is even code in a couple of places to make sure we do the right 
thing regardless of IE "mode" since I personally feel that it is 
unreasonable for any DHTML toolkit to tell you how you should be 
marking up your page.

That said, each inline ctor _is_ expecting to be able to parse-back a 
certain "interface" from the ctor node and its descendants. HTML 4 or 
XHTML, it doesn't care, but it will care that it finds things at the 
right nesting level. Some of the table-like widgets (the sort table, 
etc.) do require a certain DOM structure since they don't actually 
re-write the DOM when created, but that's the strictest we get. No 
validity checking is ever enforced.

Regards

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