26 Feb
2010
26 Feb
'10
10:44 p.m.
Bulat,
it would be cool to have you aboard... I sure feel that GWT is the
right approach to craft a formula editor.
There's many such editors around though, so you'll need to stand out.
One first small critique I have is that you say you implement copy-and-
paste but you actually only do this internally... not at all in any
advanced fashion as, e.g., has been offered by MSIE and Safari. Just a
change of claim I suppose.
My question about serialization is that display of formulæ is about
100 times more often done than editing of formulæ in common online
documents. So one needs a rendering infrastructure that can display,
and fast, within web-pages and in print. I tend to believe MathML is
the best for this purpose.
The claim for computability is bold, be very careful there: it would
mean you can serialize to MathML content or OpenMath but, at least
now, you allow a++b which has no computability. Many editors offer
both modes: with computability and without.
I like the way the you implemented selection.
paul
On 26-févr.-10, at 18:15, Bulat wrote:
> They
don't have any persistence implemented. The project is
> focused on
> editing the formula, so all they have at the moment is a Java object
> holding the formula. With that, we can serialize it any way we want.
I'm one of the developers of GWT Formula Editor. Serialization and
de-serialization of formulas is not of a big importance for us for
now. We've
been focusing more on editing usability (there's still enough open
questions).
Never the less, support for MathML and TeX (and some other formats and
computational Java libraries) is planned for the future.
If you are interested in integration of GWT Formula Editor with
XWiki, we can
collaborate on serialization/de-serialization implementation. I
suppose, that
existing TeX or MathML parsers can be slightly modified to fit to
our needs.
But not display it in any other format?
What do you mean ?
Sounds annoying.
That can be fixed. :)
Best wishes!
Bulat.
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