Re: some points

Hi

Back from Holidays and back into 20°C less :) I won't answer everything 
today, as I have to cure my jet-lag...

> Is it really impossible to get to any information about the rendered
> objects?  Don't you need to know where the cursor is in order to make
> something bold etc.?  Or process an input event to put a character into the
> xml and rerender?  Or is the BXE working in a completly different way?
> I would think there *has* to be some positional information which could
> form the basis for the prescribed cursor.

Of course you can get the position of the cursor within a node, meaning
for example between which letters the cursor is. We also can get some
information about the rendered objects, for example width and height and
position, but we can't get the information on which line the cursor is
and which letter is "above" the cursor. This is just one issue we had
with the self-grown cursor, therefore I still think we have to stick to
the Caret Browser Mode for the time being

Buuut, my Netscape visit last week revealed that they are really hard
working on ContentEditable support. It won't be in 1.2 (IIRC), but 1.3
would be a viable target. I hope, this will resolve some issues with the
cursor, but I'll try to improve it nevertheless.



> 
> > > > Concerning docu. I think for wider acceptance/adoptions of BXE,
> > > > documentation and simpler examples are very important. I started with a
> > > > very simple XHTML based example and I hope, I will have it finished soon
> > > > after being at home.
> > > 
> > > Very good!  Right now, it's a tad hard to test silva/BXE problems because
> > > i can't really reproduce the problems on the "example"-BXE cvs-version. 
> > > I really want to have simple editing (with simple xml) working before
> > > diving into more complex stuff.  Otherwise i guess it would be a
> > > months-long fight for getting reasonable stability (in the eye of
> > > the user).  
> > 
> > The XHTML example will be one of the first things I'll do, when I'm back
> > in Switzerland.
> 
> Good, but i hope we still have enough time to figure stuff out before 
> the 12th when the new silva/BXE integration release should be ready for ETH.

OMG :) Please could you let me know your deadlines a little bit earlier
next time, I could maybe adjust my priorities then (but I wouldn't
cancel my holidays anyway :) )

chregu

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