[Zope-CMF] contenteditable for mozilla

[David Harvey (Hamish)]

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 17:43, Gitte Wange wrote:
> tir, 2002-05-28 kl. 16:35 skrev seb bacon:
> > http://xopus.org/index.jsp?menu=mozce
> > 
> > I'm so pleased someone's done that :-)

Looks like an excellent start.

> > seb
> 
> It looks cool but ... 
> I'm using Galeon so maybe it isn't working like expected.
> I cool get some sort of dashed border around the title box ... but
> hitting ctrl+i or ctrl+b made the text disappear ... 

Well, I guess the authors do say that it isn't bug free - and it isn't.
I find it can't cope with the Enter key, and tends to insert characters
in the wrong order on occasion. Nonetheless it's a huge step in the
right direction. Ctrl+i and ctrl+b work fine for me, as it happens
(mozilla build 2002052321). Caret browsing didn't work in mozilla 0.9.9,
but does now I've upgraded.

> So I'm a bit confused about what I can use this niffy little script for
> ...
> 
> Can it be used to some sort of WYSIWYG-editor stuff on your edit pages
> in CMF ?

Given a bit more work, I'm sure it could be. At the very least, it would
let you edit smaller chunks of text which depend less on advanced
formatting, such as the content of news items, and descriptions of
various content types, discussion items. One of the real beauties of
this is that I'm not constrained to type into a text box, can see
(roughly - given the markup to let me know what I can edit) what the
result will look like, because I'm editing the result. I'd guess a full
wysiwyg editor is a way off yet, and the enter bug seems a show stopper
to me!

Also: I can't work out if it is possible in the IE5.5 version of this
feature to go into list mode within, say, an editable DIV (that is, are
there keystrokes that let you insert elements into the DOM?) but if you
push a list into the dom, it renders and you can edit it. If you put the
cursor at the end of a list item and press return, you get a new list
item. Perhaps the behaviour is: return closes the current element and
starts a new on identical to it, or something. Backspace on an empty
list item closes the list. I suspect it would need some javascript work
to make a more competent editor.

Cheers,
Hamish