Re: [Phpwiki-talk] direct text editing

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Dan Frankowski schrieb:
> This is cool.
> 
> Related: I assert that the ultimate editing interface you want is 
> WYSIWYG with HTML backend (simplified to avoid XSS exploits). The 
> WYSIWYG would be friendly to all the people who have trained on Word 
> etc. The HTML backend would produce a reasonable grammar (e.g., 
> eliminating the problems with bulleting and bolding in current PhpWiki). 
> Note also MediaWiki has an incredible number of HTML-like properties on 
> things to control graphics. Using actual HTML would be even better. The 
> "simplified" HTML (e.g., no onFOO event attributes for a tag) is 
> necessary to avoid massive hack attacks.
> 
> Then when you double-clicked like this thing, you'd get a Word-like (or 
> Netscape authoring tool-like, etc. etc.) editing toolbar.

I already did that last year with USE_HTMLAREA = true, but our 
HtmlParser is still not ready for general release.
(Though it is shipped since 1.3.10)
Keeping HTML as the only PageType (virus-like) cuts us back.
If you don't care about slowly getting all your markup converted to 
HTML, you can enable USE_HTMLAREA and install the htmlarea3 library.

BTW: We could consider supporting MediaWiki-like div and span tags as addon.

>>> this would make a fantastic addition to phpwiki:
>>>     http://tool-man.org/examples/edit-in-place.html
>>> quite elegant.
>>
>> Whow!
>>
>> We should be sure to place our toolbar somewhere at a fixed place,
>> where it doesn't hurt the layout.
>> IE is also out for now, so we have to wait.
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