Paul Libbrecht wrote:
As long as you rely on the default textarea there's nothing you can do there or? I wonder if that would not be a topic for the webAPI working group at W3C... it is a fairly common request I think.
You are speaking fluently about topics to which I have just arrived a bunch of hours ago! :-) I do need some time to digest all this new pieces of information. In fact, I am still digesting previous pieces of information about other rather interesting XWiki related issues :-) Simile proyect related ones are my favorites. I don't know if the webAPI working group could be interested in this issue, but I think it is worth to create a Jira issue on the topic don't you think so? I agree about the usefulness of the WYSIWYG editor both as a XWiki hook for a number of users and as a must for a comfortable working environment. But at least for us the wiki editor it is by far much more important. We need users editing code (simple code, but code anyway), and for this task the integration of TextMate or whatever other editor available for Linux, Windows and Mac platforms is the key importance.
Two other very precious features for developers: - OmniWeb has a so-called error-log where both the input and output headers can be presented... that is the only platform having that I have seen and it has helped me debug a large number of difficult cases. FireBug does it less good I feel. - OmniWeb and Opera both can "edit in place": just invoke view source... you get an editor... and that editor can let you preview. The advantage ? You are in a browser with the same origin and the same cookies... so you can experiment something client-side (e.g. changing a form's action from POST to GET) before actually changing the server. This also helped me often on badly designed web-siute.
Simply great! I've been playing with Firebug for some time now, but the use of OmniWeb is much more intuitive. Although perhaps without the previous Firebug experience I'd not reach this conclusion. We try to get a balance between FOSS and commercial software here. Firefox is a great initiative. So we have a kind of "philosophical" doubt here. I am already using OmniGraffle following Vincent's advice then it seems to me that Omni Group products are going to our commercial basket. I am far curios about OmniFocus "peace of mind" :-)
I don't get the point of what you are saying about BBedit and TexMate. I am using both, mainly TextMate in Mac OS X. Do you mean they could be somehow used with XWiki or XEclipse? Thanks!
I can't find it anymore but I had seen James Strachan blogging about integrating Textmate for all textareas of a browser (might be it was Safari). That would bring, e.g., syntax coloring.
paul
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