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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, Andre. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe my posting has been mistakable. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know that OpenCms yet uses the DHTML Active-X
Control which only works with IE. Thats ok. Nevertheless it would be a great
deal to have an Open Source WYSIWYG editor which works with different browsers
and an different plattforms. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I meant is the following: editing my html
sites with the WYSIWYG integrated in OpenCms works fine. But when I want to
create or edit NEWS(Administration=>News) there is just a form like interface
with different fields (headline-description-autho-link-content...). I use
OpenCms 4.6.1 major, with NewsModule4 and the Website for OpenCms 4.4.0
downloadable on the OpenCms homepage.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the First Open Source Content Management
Conference in March 2002 there was a presentation of OpenCms where news entries
were edited with the WYSIWIG. Is this feature not availible on the Open Source
Version?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Uli</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Andre.Fuechsel@koeln.sema.slb.com
href="mailto:Andre.Fuechsel@koeln.sema.slb.com">Fuechsel, Andre</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=opencms-dev@www.opencms.org
href="mailto:'opencms-dev@www.opencms.org'">'opencms-dev@www.opencms.org'</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, July 15, 2002 8:15 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [opencms-dev] WYSIWYG editor
also works with news?</DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>You are probably not using Internet Explorer. One of the major
drawbacks of OpenCms is IMHO that the WYSIWYG feature is limited to Internet
Explorer. It's an ActiveX-Control. Furthermore, to enter source code, OpenCms
uses another ActiveX-Control. I can't see any value of this particular one
since it does nothing more than a simple text area. Not even syntax
highlighting. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>I recently tried to replace the WYSIWYG-ActiveX with some
scripting code which worked for me but still is limited to Internet Explorer.
So this is no real solution. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>The best solution would be to have a Java-based editor with
WYSIWYG capability and HTML-source code editing with syntax highlighting.
There is nothing like this in the Open Source, the closest I could find, is
still Alpha. I tried to extend it but it is far from beeing mature. It is
called EKit, you can try it here: <A href="http://www.hexidec.com/ekit.php"
target=_blank>http://www.hexidec.com/ekit.php</A> (site is currently
down?)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>But if you want to download the source code to continue the
development, don't use it from this site, it is not modular. I structured the
whole thing into packages and generalized some features into abstract base
classes. I plan to send this back to the original author but I didn't do yet.
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<P><FONT size=2>If EKit would be finished it could easily be integrated into
OpenCms and replace both Active-X controls. But the problem with this
Java-based WYSIWYG editors is the strange behaviour and strange API of the
HTMLDocument in Swing. If somebody has time and more experiences I can publish
the source code for continuing development. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>André</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>