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Posted to dev@forrest.apache.org by Reinhard Poetz <re...@gmx.net> on 2002/06/03 09:49:14 UTC

AW: Fw: WYSIWYG XML editor via JS/ActiveX

Thank you!

If you need beta tester for Xopus2 - tell me!


Regards,
Reinhard

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Reinhard Potz                            EFP Consulting, Vienna, Austria
reinhard_poetz@gmx.net                                 http://www.efp.cc
                                                 http://www.efp.cc/v/rpo
                                                 
   SAP Internet Solutions - Content Management - Knowledge Management 

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> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Laurens van den Oever [mailto:laurens@Q42.nl]
> Gesendet: Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 18:40
> An: Reinhard Potz; forrest-dev@xml.apache.org
> Cc: cmanske@netscape.com; Kars Veling
> Betreff: RE: Fw: WYSIWYG XML editor via JS/ActiveX
> 
> 
> > Does this mean future versions of Xopus will support Mozilla with the
> > features (DTD/Schema + Stylesheet) described above?
> 
> Yes. The current alpha release of Xopus 2 (only available to
> contributors) already runs on the following platforms:
> 
>   * IE 5.5+ with MSXML 4 on Windows
>   * Mozilla 1.0 RC1+ on Windows
>   * Mozilla 1.0 RC3+ on Macintosh 
> 
> IE 5.0 support is planned. One codebase is used which means all features
> are available on all platforms. We expect to release an open source
> version mid summer.
> 
> Laurens 
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Reinhard Potz [mailto:reinhard_poetz@gmx.net] 
> Verzonden: donderdag 30 mei 2002 10:47
> Aan: 'forrest-dev@xml.apache.org'
> CC: 'info@xopus.org'; 'cmanske@netscape.com'
> Onderwerp: RE: Fw: WYSIWYG XML editor via JS/ActiveX
> 
> There are many people interested in a cross browser solution and I think
> it's only a question of a few months. At
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97284 you find the
> description
> and many comments on the famous "content-editable"-attribute for
> mozilla.
> The target-milestone is mozilla_1.1alpha and when you have a look at
> http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html#tree-management mozilla_1.1 will be
> released at the end of july.
> 
> (Is this information up to date?)
> 
> Is there anyone working on an XML-based-editor (as input it needs a
> DTD/Schema [content] and a stylesheet [presentation] and the output is
> valid
> XML) based on this upcoming Mozilla feature?
> 
> At http://xopus.org/index.jsp?menu=mozce I found:
> 
> "Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 5.5 and up supports a very useful
> feature called contenteditable. ContentEditable enables easy in-place
> editing of HTML by just setting an attribute or property.
> 
> At this moment Mozilla lacks this feature. There are however plans to
> incorporate it in Mozilla version 1.1.
> 
> Xopus is all about ease of use. In order to make an easy to use Mozilla
> version of Xopus we needed this feature.
> We didn't want to wait for Mozilla 1.1 so we developed an implementation
> of
> contenteditable for Mozilla.
> 
> We would like to stress this solution is only temporary. Mozilla's
> implementation will one day make this implementation obsolete."
> 
> 
> 
> Does this mean future versions of Xopus will support Mozilla with the
> features (DTD/Schema + Stylesheet) described above?
> 
> Regards
> Reinhard
> 
> 
> 
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Bert Van Kets [mailto:bert@vankets.com]
>  > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:04 AM
>  > To: forrest-dev@xml.apache.org
>  > Subject: Re: Fw: WYSIWYG XML editor via JS/ActiveX
>  >
>  >
>  > I am interested in any cross browser solution.  Please let me know
> which
>  > one.  I have done extensive searching on Open Source browser
>  > based editors,
>  > but haven't found a "usable" one that's cross browser.
>  > Bert
>  >
>  > At 08:18 30/05/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>  > >From: <di...@multitask.com.au>
>  > >To: <fo...@xml.apache.org>
>  > >Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:46 AM
>  > >Subject: Re: Fw: WYSIWYG XML editor via JS/ActiveX
>  > >
>  > > > So this is windows only right?
>  > >
>  > >Unfortunately it seems so :-(
>  > >
>  > >Because of this, I would be against any solution that blocks
>  > out Mozilla,
>  > >this being one of them it seems.
>  > >
>  > >There are other solutions that work cross-browser, we'll use those.
>  > >
>  > >--
>  > >Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
>  > >             - verba volant, scripta manent -
>  > >    (discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
>  >
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>  >
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