Hi Bill,
On Mar 24, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Tribley William-cwt010 wrote:
Dave,
I am new on the BlogoScene. Roller is cool, thanks for all your
work on
it. My clients want a relatively full-featured editor with fonts,
tables and
image uploads. BlogJet uploads images, ekit running as an applet
locally
should be able to do so as well.
Yes, I agree. Rich text editing is now an expected feature of blog
software.
At the moment, the best option we have in Roller is RTE.
Doing image uploads with Ekit alone might be tough.
Normally, applet's don't have pemission to access the file system.
I guess you could work around that by signing the Ekit jars.
Editing is a real nightmare. There are really no good clients out
there,
except maybe FireFox's extension. They all have holes. If the table
and
image features on ekit worked, believe it or not it stands up well
compared to most of the blog clients out there. I don't like applets,
but that is life I guess....
Really? Do you think Ekit really compares favorable to RTE?
I'm not being sarcastic here. I really want to know the answer.
I am an older developer (i.e. good with databases, perl, basic,
some C,
pascal, shell). Trying to learn Java, getting into Ruby on Rails. Is
there something I could do to help testing/integrating of ekit? How do
you debug what is happening when the magic errors are thrown?? At
least
it does not crash the browser like really misbehaving applets can.
Normally, to integrate a new editor into Roller all you need to do is to
provide a new JSP page fragment that includes the editor and add it
to the
list of editors available on the Roller config page. Somebody with basic
HTML, JavaScript and JSP skills should be able to do that.
Adding file upload to an editor might be more difficult. To do that,
you'd
have to do the file upload in the background, get the URL of the
uploaded
file somehow and then paste that into the editor. If you want to do that
with Ekit, you'll need more advanced Java/applet coding skills.
- Dave
BTW, every time I say "skills" like that, I'm reminded of Napoleon
Dynamite.
