31 Jan
2010
31 Jan
'10
6:01 p.m.
By the way, how did you find out about it?
I was looking for range and selection API support for the GWT RTA.
If I remember well then I found the XWiki SVN by googling around, but it
wasn't easy :)
(rocket-gwt has some selection support as well
(http://code.google.com/p/rocket-gwt/wiki/Selections), but that project
does not seem to be as active as XWiki.)
I plan to write a blog entry about my experiences with the XWiki RTA -
if you don't mind.
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Norbi
2010.01.31. 17:35 keltezéssel, Sergiu Dumitriu írta:
On 01/31/2010 04:32 PM, Norbert Sándor wrote:
Hello,
Well, external usage was a goal from the start, so we tried to make it
as easy as possible (and as allowed by time constrains) to reuse all or
just parts of the editor. Some plugins are tightly linked to XWiki, like
the macro or link dialogs, while others could be generic, like the
improved handling of basic formatting. So far, since XWiki was the only
user and developer of the editor, the main goal was to make it work for
our needs, while the reusability was left as a secondary goal. The
larger the community around the editor, the better it would be. So
spreading the word about it to other projects would be good, something
we haven't been doing so well so far. By the way, how did you find out
about it?
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We'd appreciate some feedback
I worked with the trunk versions of xwiki-gwt-dom and xwiki-gwt-user.
After checking them out, I slightly modified their poms (eg. removed the
parent declaration), then I could use them in my small example project
without problems.
I have much more difficulties with xwiki-web-wysiwyg, it seems to be
more tightly coupled with xwiki functionalities. It's sad because the
RichTextEditor and the plugin system would be very useful in external
projects as well.
If you would split it to two projects, with the RichTextEditor and the
plugin system in one of them, the resulting code base would be very well
usable in external project as well. And seeing what you have already
developed, it's a waste (in the good sense of meaning of course :) that
this great editor is used only in xwiki. For example I think that many
Java projects that use fckeditor (some of my projects as well) would
happily switch to a gwt-based editor (and a cleaner Java-based plugin
system). But I understand that it would need much work to support
additional external requirements...