You can't do clipboard paste though. Or drag from file system.
On Mar 24, 9:11 am, Alexey Zinger <inline_f...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yahoo Mail does this kind of rich text editor (including dragging images off
> other browser windows). I haven't looked very deeply into it yet, but it
> seems to be done primarily with JavaScript.
>
> Alexey
>
> --- On Tue, 3/24/09, phil swenson <phil.swen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: phil swenson <phil.swen...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Getting Google to embrace JavaFX -> Idea for
> > Java / JavaFX coders with time on their hands...
> > To: "The Java Posse" <javaposse@googlegroups.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 10:53 AM
> > Uploaders are all over the place in Flash and I really doubt
> > that Java
> > can do a better job than Flash. Flash's install is
> > nicer, faster,
> > smaller, and has more market share.
>
> > If you really want to provide something interesting I'd
> > build a rich
> > text editor that can be easily embedded in a web app.
>
> > Should have all the standard features for rich text plus
> > something
> > that flash can't do: paste images from the clipboard
> > (and if possible
> > drag images from the filesystem).
>
> > I have been requesting clipboard paste of the flash team
> > for a long
> > time and they still haven't delivered in Flash 10.
> > Flex doesn't have
> > a decent rich text editor component, it's pathetic with
> > absolutely no
> > image support. The javascript rich edit controls are OK,
> > but there is
> > huge room for improvement (basic stuff like end key goes to
> > end of
> > line, tab works right). And they of course can never do an
> > image
> > paste from clipboard.
>
> > This control would be great for an email editor, capturing
> > screen-
> > shots for a bug tracker, etc. The one thing I don't
> > like about gmail
> > is I have to add images via the clunky attachment
> > interface. I want
> > to take a screen-shot and drop it straight in the email and
> > be able to
> > re-size it directly in the editor.
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