Re: some points

[Christian Stocker Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:23:07AM -0700]
> On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 02:23, holger krekel wrote:
> 
> > > Doing the cursor in another way is more or less a "no go area" for me.
> > > We had a selfmade-cursor before and believe you me, the old one was
> > > really nothing you would call a well-behaving cursor in todays gui-world
> > > :) But this does certainly not mean, the way it is know couldn't be
> > > better and it will get better and we're always open to new ideas
> > 
> > Did you consider inserting/inlining a character or image which looks 
> > to the user like a cursor?  It should be possible to place a character
> > (marked up and CSSed) exactly where the next input-character would be. 
> 
> That's exactly what we did before. And it is really no alternative as
> mentioned in a mail yesterday (no moving one line up/down possible for
> example). I still think, the whole problem has to be solved within
> Mozilla itself and not with some crude JS hack :) Nevertheless we'll try
> to do this hack as good as possible, so that BXE has good cursor support
> for the time being.

Is it really impossible to get to any information about the rendered
objects?  Don't you need to know where the cursor is in order to make
something bold etc.?  Or process an input event to put a character into the
xml and rerender?  Or is the BXE working in a completly different way?
I would think there *has* to be some positional information which could
form the basis for the prescribed cursor.

> > > Concerning docu. I think for wider acceptance/adoptions of BXE,
> > > documentation and simpler examples are very important. I started with a
> > > very simple XHTML based example and I hope, I will have it finished soon
> > > after being at home.
> > 
> > Very good!  Right now, it's a tad hard to test silva/BXE problems because
> > i can't really reproduce the problems on the "example"-BXE cvs-version. 
> > I really want to have simple editing (with simple xml) working before
> > diving into more complex stuff.  Otherwise i guess it would be a
> > months-long fight for getting reasonable stability (in the eye of
> > the user).  
> 
> The XHTML example will be one of the first things I'll do, when I'm back
> in Switzerland.

Good, but i hope we still have enough time to figure stuff out before 
the 12th when the new silva/BXE integration release should be ready for ETH.

nevertheless some nice days,

    holger
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