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Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) wrote:
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> Robert Koberg wrote:
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>> Which do you think would be more interested in using a WYSIWYG editor,
>> the IE user or the mozilla user?
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> I dont see your reasoning here, can you please explain?
I meant that the typical Mozilla user is more technical and I would bet
be less inclined toward a WYSIWYG editor.
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>> The thing is contentEditable came out a long time ago in IE and
>> mozilla has yet to support it (yes, I know the workarounds).
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> But that's what many Mozilla users actually appreciate; the ability to
> easily extend the browser for their needs, hence the mozile and xopus
> contentEditable "addons". There is no need for Mozilla to support
> anything like that if your application easily adds that on runtime.
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> > Other things you
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>> can do in IE but not Mozilla:
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>> - cache xsl transformers in the browser
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> AFAIK the XSLTProcessor[1] class does exactly that. The importStylesheet
> method imports and "compiles" an XSLT file that can be reused with the
> transformToXXXX methods.
I guess I did not spend enough time looking for this when I tried.
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>> - use MSXML's Schema Object Model (SOM) for client side valdiation
>> needs, showing what elements are available at the focus, etc
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> Right.
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>> That being said, I would love it if mozilla had its own SOM for RNG.
>> The SOM is the main thing keeping me with IE.
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> True, RNG support would be a great alternative.
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>> One last thing, do you know about the Bitflux editor
>> (http://bitflux.org). It is similar and works in mozilla
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> Lately I've been playing with Kupu (former name: Epoz), see [2].
I had tried this out in the past, it does not allow a user defined
schema, right?
Personally, I am thinking of going to a java or c# app instead of
relying on the browser. Don't know though...
best,
-Rob
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> [1]
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/content/xsl/public/nsIXSLTProcessor.idl
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> [2] http://kupu.oscom.org/
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