Re: Midas, Composer

Hi

didn0t have much time today to look deeper into midas, hopefully later
this week...  but just some remarks after looking into it very quickly.

> > - iframes only (or make the whole document editable)
> i don't think you are restricted to <iframe>.
> in the demo they activate designMode with:

yep, you're not restricted to iframe, but to the document level. you can't
just make a node editable. But I think, this isn't a big deal and
"workaroundable". Actually. I think having an iframe for the content,
isn't a bad idea at all ;)

> where "edit" is the iframe, but also this should work:
>
> document.designMode = "on";
> (cannot try it right now... here at home i'm still running moz 1.2.1).

yep it works. with some bugs :) if I do that with a document, all pages
loaded in the same window/tab are editable as well, 'though not a big deal
:)

> > - mozilla 1.3 only (which means no Mac OS 9 support, since this line
> > is discontinued now...)
> yeah, i read. are there any indipendent ports for latest
> mozilla releases? i mean, a sort of chimera for os9?

don't think so. If there would be anyone handling that, it wouldn't have
been discontinued from the mozilla team. There was just noone there, which
wanted to maintain it for OS9. If someone stands up to do it, they'll be
more than happy to still support it ;)

Anyway, question about this matter:
- Is anyone still using OS 9 on this list and doesn't plan to upgrade to
OSX in the next months? Just to check possibilities for us ;)

> > - do we have control over the dom-tree of that "iframe"?
> mmmm, in javascript code of the demo they add manually the
> <table> element. with "manually" i mean createElement() / appendChild()
> directly in the JS code bypassing midas altogether.
> does this answer to your question?

saw that too ;)

>
> > - can we intercept keyevents?

couldn't get that to work in 5 minutes, but maybe I was using the wrong
build or did something wrong. If it's not possible, we can more
or less forget it. without being able to intercept key- and mouseevents,
we can't build anything useful, IMHO, but maybe there's another way to do
it :

> i dunno who is developing midas @ mozilla.org, but we should get in

kathleen brade, IIRC.

> contact  with someone over there. i'm also wondering if there's some
> link between composer module and midas. there *should* be really. the
> purpose of the two modules substantially is the same.

it's the same codebase, as far as i know (http://www.mozilla.org/editor/
implies this).

> PS: why i receive a double email of all your messages
> (from you and roger?)

when we hit reply-to-all on our mail clients, it gets to the mailinglist
and to the sender. only hitting reply would only send it to you and not to
the list.

chregu

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