Re: Question about html widget.

[Moritz Balz <verteiler mbalz de>]

Shahms King wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 13:06, Havoc Pennington wrote:
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>>On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:34:57PM +0100, Julien Olivier wrote:
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>>>> - neither is viable for Evolution composer, because they don't have
>>>>   editing. so we're stuck with gtkhtml for forseeable future 
>>>>   in at least this dedicated role.
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>>>How does Mozilla Mail create HTML emails ? Doesn't it use Gecko for that
>>>too ?
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>>Good point, I don't know.
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>>Havoc
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>While I haven't looked into it extensively, I know that Gecko supports
>editing, at the very least you can set the document.innerHTML attribute
>and fake it ;-P
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>Given the extensive DOM support in Gecko, I'd think that implementing an
>editing engine on top of that wouldn't be *too* difficult.  Also, I
>don't know much about it, but according to the release notes Mozilla 1.3
>adds a preliminary version of the new "Midas" editing interface.
>
http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midas-spec.html