Alex has asked the GT community to respond about the HTML Editor program they are working on:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...w=collapsed&sb=5
Located at: http://gossamer-threads.com/tmp/editor/
I would like to preface the following comments with the system specs I am using (for reliability purposes):
a) Windows 95b
b) Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0
c) Dialup connection (28.8 - average 27.8)
Questions
* Why are you working on this script? I am assuming that it would be a nice add-on for FileMan. This project seems to be taking time away from developing and finishing other more important projects, like Links SQL.
Good Stuff
1) The interface is quite slick.
2) The inline markers (like form) is really cool.
3) It is really cool that you can do stuff with right clicking on your mouse or holding down your mouse if you using a Mac.
4) Really cool that you can edit the HTML source as well as use the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, like Microsoft Front Page or Macromedia Dreamweaver --> for those novices out there) interface.
Bad Stuff
1) Using IFRAME is only good for MIE. Of course, you could use ILAYER for Netscape.
2) The demo only works with the links you have provided. When I type in any other address, I get the following javascript error:
Line: 13
Char: 767
Error: Unterminated string constant
Code: 0
URL: http://gossamer-threads.com/tmp/editor/fetch.cgi?URL=http://www.domain.com/
3) The interface is a bit too jazzy for novice users. A person using the program would have to be familar with Windows applications.
4) It would be nice to fetch a file from a local directory. But I assume that you would need to utilize ActiveX, which posses many security risks.
5) How do you save the file? While the demo is in its earlier stages, it is unclear where the files are saved...locally or on the server?
6) It took quite awhile to download via 27,800 bps, which is the fastest that I can connect from home (don't even go there with suggestions about DSL or ISDN, etc...I live in the mountains and they are not scheduling fixing the local multi-plexers-routers until 2002). But this speed is similar in other rural regions of the world.
7) Fetching URLs from the Web is dangerous IMHO. The problem I have with WYSIWYG editors is that you can basically FETCH a whole site, add your own stuff, and the publish it as your own.
Anyway...hope this helps.
(I hope this is the appropriate forum to post responses since there is really no forum established for this type of feedback...may be something like a Testing forum would be appropriate.)
Regards,
Eliot Lee
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/...w=collapsed&sb=5
Located at: http://gossamer-threads.com/tmp/editor/
I would like to preface the following comments with the system specs I am using (for reliability purposes):
a) Windows 95b
b) Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0
c) Dialup connection (28.8 - average 27.8)
Questions
* Why are you working on this script? I am assuming that it would be a nice add-on for FileMan. This project seems to be taking time away from developing and finishing other more important projects, like Links SQL.
Good Stuff
1) The interface is quite slick.
2) The inline markers (like form) is really cool.
3) It is really cool that you can do stuff with right clicking on your mouse or holding down your mouse if you using a Mac.
4) Really cool that you can edit the HTML source as well as use the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, like Microsoft Front Page or Macromedia Dreamweaver --> for those novices out there) interface.
Bad Stuff
1) Using IFRAME is only good for MIE. Of course, you could use ILAYER for Netscape.
2) The demo only works with the links you have provided. When I type in any other address, I get the following javascript error:
Code:
Line: 13
Char: 767
Error: Unterminated string constant
Code: 0
URL: http://gossamer-threads.com/tmp/editor/fetch.cgi?URL=http://www.domain.com/
3) The interface is a bit too jazzy for novice users. A person using the program would have to be familar with Windows applications.
4) It would be nice to fetch a file from a local directory. But I assume that you would need to utilize ActiveX, which posses many security risks.
5) How do you save the file? While the demo is in its earlier stages, it is unclear where the files are saved...locally or on the server?
6) It took quite awhile to download via 27,800 bps, which is the fastest that I can connect from home (don't even go there with suggestions about DSL or ISDN, etc...I live in the mountains and they are not scheduling fixing the local multi-plexers-routers until 2002). But this speed is similar in other rural regions of the world.
7) Fetching URLs from the Web is dangerous IMHO. The problem I have with WYSIWYG editors is that you can basically FETCH a whole site, add your own stuff, and the publish it as your own.
Anyway...hope this helps.
(I hope this is the appropriate forum to post responses since there is really no forum established for this type of feedback...may be something like a Testing forum would be appropriate.)
Regards,
Eliot Lee
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