13 Jun
2008
13 Jun
'08
3:30 p.m.
Vincent Massol wrote:
I'm really surprised there's no good already
existing WYSIWYG editor
based on GWT. It's a pity since I'm pretty sure it'll exist relatively
soon and we'll already have done all our work... Since it's not
XWiki's job to write WYSIWYG editors it's a pity we have to write it.
If we could have focused on just choosing what controls we wanted +
the html <-> wiki conversions that would have been better.
Anyway that's probably the cost of being early adopters... I hope our
editor will really rock thanks to that and keep us ahead of the
competition :) (although when a real cool GWT editor is created the
competition will be able to leapfrog us).
Well, after we have the first working version, we can release it as a generic editor, so
we can be
that really cool GWT editor. If it's outside, we won't be able to control it (as
in "strongly
request the features we need"). If we manage to make it generic enough to attract a
community, we
can emphasize the features we need, and let others make it glittery and shiny, so
we'll have the
best editor custom made for XWiki.
So Marius, keep in mind that any XWiki specific feature must not be hard wired in the
editor.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/