[opencms-dev] WYSIWYG editor

[Claus Priisholm]

I haven't tested the editor for various CSS2 commands, but I spent 
quite some time(*) on making the makeover for my homepage into a pure 
CSS one. In that process it has become clear that even not the latest 
MSIE properly support CSS (1 or 2), so I would be surprised if the 
editor fares any better.

But, assuming you limit your CSS ambitions to the most common 
typography-related styles (and not the more complicated layout styles), 
then it does a decent job. When you create a new article in OpenCms you 
select a template, and that template in turn holds a reference to the 
appropriate stylesheet file, which is what the editor uses. As for 
turning of bold, you could as a workaround (if there are no other 
means) just use the stylesheet to nullify the visual 'sideeffects' of 
people using the bold style or likewise.

(*) As for my findings on the state of the art in CSS and browsers, I 
rank Gecko-based browsers best (though not without flaws). KHTML based 
ones comes in second (of Konqueror and Safari the latter seems to 
closest to matching Gecko) and last of the ones I've looked at is MSIE 
(haven't tested Opera). But that said it is generally small issues, of 
which MSIE faulty implementation of fixed positioning bugs me the most.

regards
Claus

On onsdag, sep 3, 2003, at 10:51 Europe/Copenhagen, David De Block 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are currently suggesting OpenCms as a possible solution at a 
> prospect.
> He had some questions I couldn't find the answer for:
> * Can the ActiveX Wysiwyg editor be limited in functionalities?  E.g. 
> the
> user isn't allowed to put something in bold, can this functionality 
> then be
> disabled?
> * Does the Wysiwyg editor supports css2?
>
> Best Regards,
> David De Block
>
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