Re: Other Languages? // Xopus?

Hi Christian,

Thanks greatly for your response I appreciate it.  This is great to hear.

How are you finding midas?  I have been having a little play with it myself
looks like it is cool.

I just ran into http://xopus.org a "cross-browser" XML editor.  Their Moz
demo didn't seem to work so well (I only have Moz 1.0 right now, which is
soon to be rectified ;-) ), but their IE one worked very well, although it
is a little slow to download :-)

Here is how it works:
"Xopus uses XSLT stylesheets to transform the XML to user presentable HTML.
The user can edit this HTML like he or she is     editing HTML in a wysiwyg
HTML editor or a word processor. All changes are stored in the XML."

They use MSXML 4.0 to allow this to happen within IE, which I think is a
potentially excellent approach to take for an IE bitflux port as it is (from
my limited understanding) a similar architecture to bitflux.  This is much
better than using execCommand and iFrame as this calls the windows operating
system and is an entirely different architecture than bitflux (and forget IE
running on a MAC or linux). It does require the user to install a plug-in
for the browser but I think that is an okay trade off.

What are your thoughts on this approach?  Any other thoughts about xopus as
it is also an open source project with seemingly similar objectives to
bitflux?

Awesome,

Z

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Stocker" <[email protected]>
To: "Zitan Broth" <[email protected]>
Cc: "BXE Developer List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [bx-editor-dev] Other Languages?


> On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 10:38, Zitan Broth wrote:
> > Greetings All,
> >
> > Just been asked about wysiwyg editing in the languages Chinese, Japanese
and
> > Korean.  Is this possible with bitflux, or is this to do with the
browser
> > ( rather than the web application ) ?
>
> This is certainly possible ;) We already support Hebrew, Arabic,
> Russian, Greek and some more via the Special-Character Table (Just click
> on the Euro Symbol to pop it up). But every other language defined in
> UTF-8 is also possible, we just didn't implement them there. And of
> course, you can also type those characters into the editor, if your
> system is ready for that.
>
> chregu
>
> >
> > Just wondering, and thanks :-)
> >
> > Z.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Wechner" <[email protected]>
> > To: <[email protected]>
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 3:42 PM
> > Subject: [bx-editor-dev] MozCE 0.3
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am not sure if this is something new, is it?
> > >
> > > http://www.playsophy.com/Wrap/mozce.html
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
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