[opencms-dev] openCms on the Mac (Client)

[Claus Priisholm]

Hi

I too would love to see a cross platform (i.e. Win/Lin/Mac) solution. 
I've seen a couple of open source JavaScript based ones, but due to 
JavaScript differences they tend to be specific for a given browser 
(making it cross platform only if it supports Mozilla - something I 
could live with). But some of them looks very interesting, like the 
bitflux editor, which is is based on XML and allows editing directly in 
the page as it really looks (i.e. with background color, right column 
width and in relation to other elements on the page). But it is still 
very much work-in-progress, and I have no idea how well it would fit 
into the OpenCms environment (one would at least have to define a 
pseudo-html XML schema to provide the free form entry that the Active X 
component allows today)

Java applets would be another way to go - there is a number of 
commercial ones to be found on the net, but I have not tested any of 
them, to see how well they work - they would still have to render much 
like the common browsers, one thing that the Active X component does 
reasonably well. So until someone comes up with a fully fledged Java 
browser I remain a bit weary as to how well it would work (but then 
again almost WYSIWYG is better than none)

There are some projects that attempt to use the built-in editor in 
Mozilla, and that may be a viable way to go as well, but I still think 
some tweaks needs to be done to the editor such that it can be 
controlled better from the controller - a simple solution that I guess 
would actually work if it wasn't for the CDATA tag in the source mode 
is the "Composite" plugin (adds an edit button to text areas such that 
the contents can be called up in the built in editor - but since it 
doesn't know about your stylesheets or the like, it still is very 
limited how much it is WYSIWYG)

And finally we could hope for Apple to come up with a feature in Safari 
that would work much like the Active X component from MS, just that it 
would work better...

Maybe some of the core developer could shed some light on what it would 
take to integrate other editors (I haven't had time to look at the 
source code, so I have no idea the API for the editor is)

Claus

On fredag, nov 7, 2003, at 00:00 Europe/Copenhagen, Michael Huber wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> some of my colleagues love their fancy Powerbooks and their stylish OS 
> X
> ;-))
> Now I read that openCms' WYSIWYG-editor is based on Active X and 
> therefore
> restricted to Win-machines + IE.
>
> What WYSIWYG-solution is there on Mac OS X? Any experiences?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Michael :-))
>
>
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