[MTOS-dev] WYSIWYG Editor, Postprocessing (was: [ProNet] Javascript Library Standardization)

[Bud Gibson]

YUI has a decent text editor which is why I'd be willing to use it.

On Jan 23, 2008 6:46 PM, Alvar Freude <alvar at a-blast.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> -- Arvind Satyanarayan <arvind.2111 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Boy, I must be falling behind the times, last time I checked, we did
> > have a *usable* wysiwyg. It just doesn't happen to output valid html
> > but that doesn't make it any less usable.
>
> the 4.0 Editor has the problem, that the generated code depends on the
> browser. And with Safari this is full with strange style definitions,
> which partly break the CSS layout.
>
> My favourite WYSIWYG-Editor should at first generate good structured
> HTML, not WYSIWYG: from H1 to Hx, P, STRONG, SMALL, PRE, UL/LI, DEL, INS
> and so on, perhaps with an additional class selector.
> How this will be displayed is defined in my styles, the editor should not
> handle the display, only the structure.
>
> I don't know if one of the usual editors can handle this, everything I
> looked at (it's not very much) included more or less ugly HTML.
>
>
> One other thing:
> There should be the possibility of HTML postprocessing, e.g. to change
> the class for internal/external links or links to special sites.
>
> Example:
> In my Blaster-Blog I have three types of links: Internal (no class),
> external (class="ext"), and links to the project pages (class="blast");
> the external gets an image before and the blast a pulsing hover.
>
> <
> http://blog.assoziations-blaster.de/2007/12/jugendschutz-erwachsenenschutz.html
> >
> (sorry, text is in german; you can see the mentioned links types it at
> the first two links and the overview link list after the first (bold)
> paragraphs)
>
>
> I have to do this by hand, but writing a simple filter would be easy,
> because the links can be distinguished by their domain.
>
>
> I have not checked the new features in 4.1, perhaps this postprocessing
> is possible with them ...
>
>
> Ciao
>  Alvar
>
>
>
>
> --
> ** Alvar C.H. Freude, http://alvar.a-blast.org/
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