mozile: index: I installed this, and at first glance, it looks as cool as it sounds.
“Mozile or Mozilla Inline Editor is an in-browser, context-sensitive, XHTML editor that allows a user to edit all or just specific editable sections of any XHTML page from the comfort of his own browser. It can act as the client-side of a content-editing system or as a self-contained ‘web word processor’”
Yes, you’ve seen WYSIWYG editors before, but this one is utterly transparent. You don’t have a text box — you literally edit the page as it sits in the window. It’s strange at first. You get a formatting toolbar built into the browser, even.
You set editable areas using CSS. Encompass something with a DIV, and give it a rule of “moz-user-modify” with a value of “read-write.” I’m still not 100% sure how to save changes or deploy a page, but it seems awfully impressive nonetheless.
When Macromedia Contribute was first announced, they made a very big deal about the fact that you could browse to a page, then click “Edit.”
“‘We’ve learned a lot about designing a product for people who don’t naturally love to use software…It was important that people not have to learn a new interface. This needs to be something that doesn’t require a big training or implementation process.’”
Mozile just blew a big hole in that competitive advantage.
O’Reilly has an article on it.
DevEdit is a Browser Based WYSIWYG Online HTML Editor...: DevEdit has got to be one of the most impressive, feature-rich, Web-based, WYSIWYG HTML editors on the market. At first glance, I thought this was just another basic rendition of the browser control within IE. Looking deeper though, I saw it's actually…
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Well, I broke down and am trying a WYSIWYG editor called htmlarea from Interactive Tools. It's JavaScript-based and it seems slick as all get out. I like Textile, and it was very...pure, but I'm weak. Sorry to all the text purists out there.
Some very interesting news out of Macromedia this morning. They plan to release a lightweight Web editing tool called Contribute that's geared for non-Web developers that need to make changes to Web pages. I'm interested in the possibilities this could open up for the workplace. I'm involved in using…