[Zope] Structured text is inconvenient esp. w BackTalk

[Asad Quraishi]

Thanks Luciano,

Very good and helpful explanation.  Please keep me posted as you learn 
more and I'll do likewise.

- Asad

Luciano Ramalho wrote:

>
> 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
>
>