I found a Java applet that allows you to edit HTML right in a web page, replacing a textarea with a WYSIWYG HTML editor. It occured to me that this would be a fabulous thing to use with Zope to do away with textarea inputs for HTML. Is anyone doing this? These tools are not free :-( but they are not very expensive either: Cross Platform (Java Applet) implementation of this. (This is the one I'm interested in): http://www.realobjects.de/index.htm?/english/editonpro_e.htm Windows tools that do this: http://www.ektron.com/ewebeditpro.cfm?doc_id=1035 http://www.mifo.com/comgistics.htm http://www.editlive.com/product/ How would you make Zope serve up a java applet without having to run Apache just for applet serving? How hard would it be to make Zope put this type of stuff in the management pages where ever a text box is currently used to grab HTML input?
<HEAD> <SCRIPT ID=clientEventHandlersJS LANGUAGE=javascript> <!-- function scriptForm_onsubmit() { document.scriptForm.HTMLText.value = document.editor.getHTMLData("http://"); } //--> </HEAD>
<BODY> <FORM name="scriptForm" method="post" action="test1.asp" LANGUAGE=javascript onsubmit="return scriptForm_onsubmit()" target="_blank">
<APPLET id="editor" name="editor" code="EditorApplet" archive="edit-on-pro.jar" height=400 width=600 VIEWASTEXT>
<PARAM name="CODEBASE" value="../../eopro/">
<param name="CABBASE" value="edit-on-pro-signed.cab"> <param name="LOCALE" value="en_US"> <param name="BUTTONORDER" value="toolbar.txt"> <param name="BODYONLY" value="true"> <param name="TEXTMODE" value="TRUE"> <param name="SOURCEVIEW" value="TRUE"> <param name="DEFAULTBACKGROUNDCOLOR" value="white"> </APPLET>
I don't get into Zope internals at all yet so this is beyond my knowlege. Is this a viable solution? Scott