Re: Midas, Composer

Hiho

Midas is actually "just" an HTML-Editor, at least the demo at
http://mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/ . And what's even worse, it's HTML 4
:) so, this is not much use for us, _but_ I hope, I can use some parts of
this and use it in BXE. There are several issues, which I have to check
just a short list (maybe someone knows solutions to that):

- iframes only (or make the whole document editable)
- mozilla 1.3 only (which means no Mac OS 9 support, since this line is
discontinued now...)
- do we have control over the dom-tree of that "iframe"?
- can we intercept keyevents?
- and certainly  more ..

That's about it fot the moment, I hope I find some time tomorrow to
quickly look into midas and will report back about my results.

chregu

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Roger Fischer wrote:

> Hi Deelan
>
> You had me then:)
> ...good reading:)
>  -Chregu being the main responsible for the Bitflux Editor, I hope he has in-
> between looked into Midas, to give the ultimative answer.
>
> I went quickly to the Midas page, but didn't see anything which told me that it
> isn't a HTML editor. Still, I agree with you, maybe there are things to pick up.
> It's up to Chregu to tell us that, I guess.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the reply - it does make much more sense that way.
> Best
> Roger
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> > >>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?
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> > > no offense, but IMHO these are HTML editors? or have I missed something?
> >
> > well, i just picked up the idea as i read this comment on
> > mozillazine:
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> > [chregu]
> > "We (Bitflux) wanted to look into Midas for a long time, but didn't
> > have the time to do it. Maybe this is a solution to make it more
> > responsive and better editable. (...) Now's the best
> > time, as we are in the planning phase for the next major version :)"
> > http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=2900&message=5#5
> >
> > well, i was wondering that, since there are two  running "editor"
> > projects within mozilla you could recycle some code from one or both
> > of them.
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> > sounds reasonable to me.
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> > cheers.
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