Re: Midas, Composer

Hi Deelan

> i'm new to the ML. I saw the mozillaZine's news about the europe 
> conference, checked the slides and then  subscribed to this dev ML. I'm 
> basically interested in creating a WYSIWYG XML/XHTML editing tool for 
> mozilla-based browsers. bitflux is definitely interesting, but
> from what i saw its pretty slow when it comes at GUI operations.

Did you do any benchmarking? 

 i think
> the built-in mozilla editor (composer) or the newly added midas module
> could be used instead of reinventing the wheel and write everything
> from scratch. why not personalize composer? or use midas? 

no offense, but IMHO these are HTML editors? or have I missed something?

yes,
> this could "lock" the project to mozilla and make an eventual porting
> to IE even harder, but i think there're other module on the
> market to allow author content on IE, an eventual port could use
> those.

I think there is nothing on the market at the moment, which does it the same 
way we do it, meaning xml, wysiwyg xml editing. And that's largely due to  
Mozilla:)
> 
> i'm looking at the midas demo and i think midas could be a solution. 
> what it's not clear is how much midas there's  in composer and vice 
> versa. can midas be used to author XML files?
> 
I don't think so.

Best
Roger
> 
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