Re: Rich Web-editor

Saurabh Bobde wrote:

>  
> One of our clients is looking for a super feature-rich editor to be built as
> a web application.

Your client is likely to be disappointed, or you are likely 
going to have to jump through hoops to get close.  The Web 
and very feature rich clients are not a real good mix. 
Using a Java application and Java WebStart (JNLP) might be
the best approach, depending on just how rich of an 
experience they want.

> While they already have suport for features like formatting - font, size,
> color, etc. they now want to move a notch up. They want the application
> (currently in JSP/Servlets) to be able to support features like in MS
> Wordpad. Specifically,  support for copy/paste of text AND images from other
> applications.
<snip>
> 
> Is this at all possible? If so, are there are free or commercial
> APIs/components that we can look into?

I don't know how close it comes to meeting your clients 
requirements, but a starting point might be the Mozilla 
Midas stuff.  Check out:

<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_Rich_Text_Editing>
<http://www.mozilla.org/editor/>
<http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midas-spec.html>
<http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/>

One downside to this is that it's all browser specific.  IE 
has something synonymous - I think - but I don't know 
anything about it.

> 
> So far, assuming that plain JSP will not be able to provide such features,
> we are also looking at Applet as an alternative.

Applets might work, but I tend to favor Java Webstart apps 
over old style applets.  YMMV.


TTYL,


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