[Zope] HTML formatting from a text field

[Rik Hoekstra]

Lee Hunter wrote:
> 
> Hi Ausum,
> 
> Do you mean a text field that shows a row of formatting buttons at the top
> for 'bold', 'italic' 'add link' etc.
> 
> There is an ActiveX control that is built in to IE Explorer 5.x - you just
> have to call it from your page.
> 
> Here's the information from Microsoft:
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/edit/ref/cncpt.asp
> 
> If you get it working with Zope (which shouldn't be a problem) let us know.
> 


There was a start at a product doing this (called ZIE) by Johan Carlsson
, but it looks like it was aborted quite some time ago. Dont know about
its status. You could try how far it would get you, tho
see:
http://www.zope.org/Members/johanc/ZIE

hth

Rik