Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Edit This Page WYSIWYG

Author:Richard Sexton
Posted:12/1/1999; 2:26:59 PM
Topic:Edit This Page WYSIWYG
Msg #:13353
Prev/Next:13352 / 13354

Has anyone seen these WYSIWYG HTML tools, written in DHTML? They are IE4/5 Windows only but still quite impressive.

Also, I believe the Homestead folks have implemented a similar, but more sophisticated, toolset in Java.

Wouldn't it make sense to have these kinds of tools an option in Manila? Supporting Macs and Linux would be tricky but worth investigating.

Ever since the Web began, I've been searching for "edit this page" and trying to make it work. I always hoped it would be WYSIWYG but I settled for textareas too. However, I always thought that DHTML stuff was an excellent proof of concept. I wish I wrote it!

However, I did implement my own 'edit this page' back in '98 on a little known kids site. So, do I get a free copy of Frontier as a consolation prize, perhaps? ;-)

Actually, some of the work we did might be interesting to the developers of Frontier. Please content me privately if you want to arrange a quick demo of the administration features.

Anyway, I'm quite excited about "the other half of the Edit this Page vision" and I particularly admire Dave's thinking in using a separate application as the editor.

I always knew "fractional-horsepower" Web servers would be a part of the puzzle. For me, I hoped it would make real Web applications viable offline so that I could justify it in the old days. The complaint was always "why would someone pay to use your product/service when they have to pay for the Internet access at the same time?" That still makes me smile...

Well enough rambling and nostalgia. I am really excited to see this stuff take shape and I really want to be a part of it.

PS: huge congratulations to the Frontier team on shipping 6.1!

Rich Sexton
Web Developer
http://www.skillsvillage.com/about/

There are responses to this message:

This page was archived on 6/13/2001; 4:53:38 PM.

© Copyright 1998-2001 UserLand Software, Inc.