[Zope] Structured text is inconvenient esp. w BackTalk

[Luciano Ramalho]

On quarta-feira, fev 26, 2003, at 18:00 America/Sao_Paulo, Asad 
Quraishi wrote:

> Does the IE WYSIWYG editor produce STX?  Is it producing HTML and 
> delivering via WEBDAV?  I'd love to know which editor your are using, 
> why & how you are using it.

For several months we've been using the IE Editor for Zope, written by 
V. Satheesh Babu. You can get it at:
- http://vsbabu.org/webdev/zopedev/ieeditor.html

It works very well, but only on IE for Windows, versions 5.5 and above. 
It generates HTML in a textarea which you handle like a regular form 
field (so this involves no WebDAV). In the product page, Babu says "I 
should probably make use of MSHTML control since DHTML Editing Control 
used in this is no longer supported by Microsoft."

Anyway, since we like to reduce ties with Microsoft stuff, in the past 
few days we've donwload a few Mozilla-1.1-based WYSIWYG editors. We 
haven't been succesful installing ComposIte and another one (I forget 
which one right now) on two Debian and one MacOS X machine. We are 
testing on those plaforms first, because we really want something 
cross-plaform (we don't mind if the solution browser-specific, as long 
as the browser is open source and multi-platform like Mozilla).

We are very interested in a Mozilla-based solution because we feel that 
is the way to go. Anythinng Java-base is a dead-end for me 
(re-implementing rich-text rendering within a browser sounds like a 
very bad idea).

A very extensive list of WYSIWYG editors was compiled by Paul Browing, 
another Zopista:
- http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/projects/cms/ttw/ttw.html

This is an ongoing investigation for us. When we reach some conclusion 
I'll let you know. Meanwhile, if anybody has had real world experience 
deploying any of these Mozilla-based editors, we want to hear from you!

Best regards,

Luciano