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

[Michael Huber]

Hi there,

does anybody here have a working WYSIWYG-solution on Mac OS X?
How are you mac-people out there working with opencms?

Thank you,

Michi  :-))


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Claus Priisholm" <cpr at codedroids.com>
To: <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] openCms on the Mac (Client)


> 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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