Re: [Hypercontent-users] Xinha

[Carl B. <C.P...@hu...>]

Hi Alex

I’ll stick with HTMLArea for now, I don’t want to create unnecessary 
work . It makes sense to wait until version 2, at which point I’d be 
glad to be involved in any evaluation process.

Off the top of my head, our main requirements for a new WYSIWYG would be:

Top Level
The editor controls to be configurable so we can decide what the user sees.
Plug-in Free, although I understand this might be a trade off for more 
flexibility.
Cross Platform and Cross Browser compatibility.

Low Level
Tables support
HTML Clean up to remove custom font and colour tags.

I can work on a more detailed list.

When do you expect version 2 to be ready for testing? I’m very 
interested to take a look.

Thanks

Carl

Alex Vigdor wrote:

> Hi Carl,
> I would caution against trying to switch WYSIWYG editors in 
> HyperContent 1.4; I had to customize HTMLArea fairly extensively so 
> that relative links and image paths would work correctly. You could 
> certainly do it, but it will be more of a headache than you might 
> think. We have talked here at Columbia about evaluating our options 
> for a new editor for version 2.0, which should not require such 
> customizations as HyperContent 2 is more transparent to the browser 
> (since it responds like a regular web server). There's quite a few 
> alternatives out there, so I think a competitive evaluation is due. 
> Htmlarea,com now sports a list of open source WYSIWYG editors - we 
> should definitely put Xinha on the list, and I would certainly 
> appreciate your involvement in evaluating some of the alternatives. 
> The baseline functionality is pretty common across tools, but features 
> like table editing are perhaps more divergent in their 
> implementations. What types of requirements would you have for a new 
> WYSIWYG?
>
> Alex
>
> On Mar 21, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Carl Barrow wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex
>>
>> Would you suggest using Xinha 
>> (http://xinha.gogo.co.nz/cgi-bin/trac.cgi) instead of htmlArea? and 
>> if so how easy is will be be to switch ?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Carl
>>
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