[Fwd: Re: some points]

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From: Christian Stocker <[email protected]>
To: holger krekel <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [bx-editor-dev] some points
Date: 09 Oct 2002 17:49:08 +0200

On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 23:14, holger krekel wrote:
> hello Christian,
> 
> welcome back to europe.

it's too cold here :)

> In the meantime i also analyzed the situation with a (javascript-) 
> friend and he stated that working XML/DOM-based with current
> brwosers forces one to hack around lots of bugs.  And some things like
> cursors are *hard* to do at all. And we are not even talking about 
> cross-browser here.  There is no stable javascript-editor currently
> which doesn't mean we shouldn't aim for one.  The only solutions so 
> far seem to involve java.

java is no solutions here for our goal. java does not render HTML/CSS or
at least not like the browser would. But you're right, it will be quite
hard to get the editor working like any other text-processor is expected
to behave... But at least the Mozilla/Netscape Developer know now, that
we are around and I think they have an open ear for us :)

> > 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.
> 
> Good news.  So taking everything into account, the main question probably is 
> how much time to get a *stable* user-friendly basic WYSIWYG-editor?  I don't 
> want to press on you at all because i know you are doing good work.  But it'
> s important to have a *realistic* time schedule.  Both of us need a reasonable
> plan for our customers. 

puuh, hard question. and i can't really answer it. I will certainly put
a lot of effort in the next few days in improving cursor and other
stuff..

> Probably you know that having simple clean code also has a lot more
> chance to attract more developers.  

haha, nice hint :) I hope with going OO the code is getting nicer to
look at. And the simple example (XHTML) is still very needed...

> ASFAIK we will meet on the 16th 
> in Zuerich so we can discuss this in depth :-) 

yep, we should take some time then for that.

chregu


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