Will Mozilla Fly? (IT-Director) [LWN.net]

Will Mozilla Fly? (IT-Director)

Posted Apr 21, 2004 15:28 UTC (Wed) by hingo (subscriber, #14792)
In reply to: Will Mozilla Fly? (IT-Director) by rjamestaylor
Parent article: Will Mozilla Fly? (IT-Director)

If we can't add rich-text editing to a SourceForge based project, why are we complaining about Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc.?

My toughts exactly about 1 year ago. That was when I spent some time hacking a Rich Text Editor that runs purely on Javascript and the standard DOM. It's a bit of a stretch, but I got quite far before I had to start spending time on more important stuff. Personally, I think it could work, given a clever hacker with some spare time and imagination. If someone is willing to take over, be my guest: http://walter.sourceforge.net/.

(Imagination is needed, because html+dom was not meant to be used this way. But as we all know, that doesn't mean it cannot be used this way :-)

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Will Mozilla Fly? (IT-Director)

Posted Apr 21, 2004 15:41 UTC (Wed) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link]

Very good.

Works great in Fire$LIFEFORM. Unfortunately it is hard to justify development time to support a user platform used by fewer than 10% (and I'm rounding way up) even if the developers are "enlightened." But, I will put a note in our Bugzilla that there is at least a beginning to a non-IE RichText editor.

Thanks.

Will Mozilla Fly? (IT-Director)

Posted Apr 22, 2004 16:25 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

WOW!! If only support for walter got into TYPO3... (typo3.{com,org} -- great free CMS/CMF)