RE: ...words from the other side...

Hi Holger

>You could transform the XML on the server side to, say, HTML
>and the client works with it and then sends back the HTML
>to be transform back to the "content"-XML on the server side.
>It's more or less a way of transporting data.  It's not so
>much the data format i worry about but the display/interaction
>techniques.

I think we have to explain this issue on several levels, as it doesn't seem
to be clear after our former mails:

Here is a possible toc of a future text which will try to explain it,
We certainly will start our explanations by mail and later put it on the
website;) - which I will come to in my next mail as well.

- Conceptional level
 - History: SGML, HTML, CSS, XML
 - Present: HTML + CSS
 - Future: XML + CSS

- History of Bitflux Editor
  - From Serverside transformation to Clientside transformation

- Technical Achievements
   	- Deeply nested XML
 	- Performance Issues

- Browser implications
  - Differences of Mozilla and IE
	- Mozilla, a XML based browser
 	- IE, a HTML based browser
  - Possible Scenarios for IE Version for Bitflux Editor


BTW: Read "Creating Applications with Mozilla" (http://books.mozdev.org/)

>
>> > The main work seems not to be the "transport" but a decent interactive
>> > editor on the frontend.  If that is really achievable with
>XML/XSLT/CSS
>> > and the mozilla API than it's a good idea (at least for Mozilla:-)
>>
>> I think, this is really achievable :)
>
>I am not convinced as long as there is no decent cursor and stable
>bold/italics/... markup :-) IMO having wordpad-alike behaviour is
>the goal. As usual, your mileage may vary.
>
The cursor is "VERY" important, we agree and Christian is working on it.
Still it has nothing to do with the above issue.

Best regards
Roger


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