Just checked, and you're quite right.

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, 12:23 PM
> 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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