[NBLUG/talk] Open Source Java applet for HTML editing

Todd Cary todd at aristesoftware.com
Mon Sep 8 12:07:01 PDT 2003


What I want is a replacement for the <TextArea> on a Web page that has 
the HTML, Java based editor.  This will be running on a Linux server.  
The user will then be able to create HTML based emails (that is what my 
client is asking for) and then send the emails to all people on the Php 
emailer I have created using a MySQL DB.

The demo I have at http://209.204.172.137/example/demo.php has this, but 
it is in JavaScript and has to have IE.  For my client to install Java 
is not a problem, or so he says.

Todd

Eric Eisenhart wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:41:51PM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
>  
>
>>Yes, that is correct.  If one has IE, this JavaScript editor does what I 
>>want except it requires IE - not good.  That is why I would like to have 
>>a Jave applet version.
>>    
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>Java won't work for IE on WinXP (or any version of Windows newer than that),
>unless the user has downloaded and installed Java software, which probably
>99% of users are unable to do and unknowing that doing so might be cool.
>
>Have you considered something that transforms a more reasonable textual
>markup into HTML?
>
>http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/
>The same thing has been ported into at least one other programming language:
>http://www.bradchoate.com/past/mttextile.php
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