Re: Rich Web-editor

Perhaps WebDAV could be considered in this case.  Let the users use  
Word and Excel as the front-end to your application, and the data  
gets saved to the server.  Food for thought.

	Erik


On Jan 11, 2006, at 1:30 AM, Saurabh Bobde wrote:

>
> One of our clients is looking for a super feature-rich editor to be  
> built as
> a web application.
>
> 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.
>
> So, if the user copies text from a word, excel (or any other kind,  
> like PDF,
> etc), and paste it into this web-interface, it needs to retain all the
> formatting!
>
> (You can try it with WordPad for a better idea of what we are  
> looking for).
>
> Is this at all possible? If so, are there are free or commercial
> APIs/components that we can look into?
>
> So far, assuming that plain JSP will not be able to provide such  
> features,
> we are also looking at Applet as an alternative.
>
> Any pointers appreciated,
>
> Thanks & Rgds,
>
> - Saurabh Bobde
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