Re: Forward of moderated message

Hi



On 8/25/03 8:25 AM, [email protected] wrote:



> Apologies for posting on this subject. I realise this is a FAQ, but I'm
> after a bit more info than what I've found on the list archives and
> online FAQ so far.

no problem.


> We've been looking at bitflux for something we are working on. It is
> very nice, and without a doubt the best on-line editor for our
> application (and we looked at lots).

thanks ;)


> Unfortunately we have a requirement for IE support, as well as Mozilla.
> Bitflux is so nice that we are considering using it for Moz support, and
> some other poor alternative for IE support. However, it would be nice if
> we could use Bitflux for both platforms.

hehe. sure that would be nice...

> I've seen the info about "in theory, bitflux could be made to work with
> IE", but I'm more interested about "in reality". I'm interested in
> guestimates as to how much work would be required, and when/if anyone is
> likely to make it work. 

Can't guestimate at the moment neither the amount of work, nor when 
someone does it. We don't have the resources at the moment (finance-wise 
and human-resource-wise) to do this.

> If no-one is interested in making it work, is it
> feasible for us to make it work ourselves, and how would we go about it?

Would be great of course. I will release the new BXE Alpha/Foobar 
version in the next view days. After that, we certainly can look 
together into it.

> It seems to me that by migrating to mozile and eDOM you are getting
> further, rather than closer, to a working IE version. Even though it
> makes a nice foundation for bitflux, mozile is a mozilla driven project,
> and I can't see much interest in making mozile work for IE.

Depends a little. Mozile uses some Mozilla specific stuff, but not 
_that_ much. I think, it's possible to port Mozile, or at least the 
relevant parts of it to IE. I just can't remember, how well IE supports 
prototypes _and_ "getter","setter" stuff, which we use heavily. IIRC, 
prototypes are support, but not the getter/setter thingie. Anyone knows 
better?

We are certainly getting closer to IE support than further away, 'cause 
we got rid of the XML-rendered-with-CSS approach, but do everything in 
(X)HTML on the output. The approach is still the same, just the output 
is different.

And mozile,eDOM is just a helper library for us, which made it much 
easier to get started. But I implemented a lot of stuff on top of that 
and the main functionality is at the moment in BXE and not in Mozile. 
Therefore maybe (...) it would be possible to change the mozile stuff 
and use an approach, which IE also supports.

Hope that clearifies it a little bit and if you have questions, just ask.

chregu

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