ah, my bad, it was on the site that i was testing it
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Jeremy Jongsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> TJ -
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I will look into those issues. This is also
> the first of I've heard of scripteka, I'll definitely post these
> there.
>
> Brian -
>
> That's actually the main reason I built RTE. I had a site that loaded
> content and forms via AJAX, and couldn't find a good editor that I
> could setup and tear down at will. To add it to a textarea with a CSS
> id of "my_editor", just use:
>
> var rte = new Control.RTE('my_editor', '/images/rte');
>
> If you replace the form (via AJAX or something), or just want to
> restore the original textarea, use:
>
> rte.destroyEditor();
>
> ...and the original textarea will reappear. I find this particularly
> useful when you give the user a choice of entering content in
> plaintext or HTML; as they select their choice, you can instantly
> convert the textarea to the desired format.
>
> Did you download and test ColorPicker locally with 1.6? On my site
> I'm still using Prototype 1.4, which it works fine with.
>
> -j
>
> On Apr 23, 3:32 am, "T.J. Crowder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Jeremy,
> >
> > Very cool, thanks for sharing those. I really like your take on the
> > RTE (feature bloat and ugliness are defnitely issues many of the RTEs
> > out there have).
> >
> > If you haven't already done so, have you considered submitting these
> > to scripteka.com?
> >
> > FWIW: Your RTE shares two common problems I have with others out
> > there, so I thought I should mention them:
> >
> > 1. It's easy to get into a situation where Ctrl+End puts you at the
> > end of the last line of visible text, but as soon as you type a
> > letter, the letter is put at the beginning of the next line instead.
> > This is *incredibly* frustrating, and it's a common problem with
> > several RTEs I've found. If you could fix that one, you'd be golden.
> > One of the myriad ways to create it:
> >
> > * Press Ctrl+A to select all text
> > * Press Del
> > * Type a sentence and press Enter
> > * Press backspace
> > * Press Ctrl+Home
> > * Press Ctrl+End
> >
> > At this point, the cursor is at the end of the line of text. But if
> > you type a letter, it appears at the beginning of a new line.
> > (Firefox 2.0.0.14, Windows XP)
> >
> > That series of steps looks complicated, but you understand it's just a
> > reliable example; in practice, this situation is incredibly easy to
> > set up. I don't know why so many RTEs have this problem, perhaps
> > they're all deriving Kevin Roth's code.
> >
> > 2. Clicking in the blank area underneath all text you've typed should
> > put the cursor at the end of the text like Ctrl+End does, rather than
> > ignoring the click (IMHO).
> >
> > Again, thanks for sharing, and these are nits being picked.
> > --
> > T.J. Crowder
> > tj / crowder software / com
> >
> > On Apr 23, 7:45 am, Jeremy Jongsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Two reasons for this post:
> >
> > > 1) I've built a number of prototype-based input widgets over the years
> > > that I use quite regularly on my web projects, but I just realized
> > > I've never shared them with the community (they're GPL licensed). So
> > > here you go:http://home.jongsma.org/software/js/
> >
> > > 2) The demos on my site are using prototype 1.4.0. I just tested and
> > > all of them work fine on the latest (1.6.0.2) except the colorpicker.
> > > If you download and use the colorpicker widget with prototype 1.6.0.2,
> > > the color swatches in the dropdown box do not appear (the whole panel
> > > is gray). But mousing over the panel still shows the colors that
> > > should be there, and clicking selects a color as it should. Before I
> > > waste a lot of time debugging this, does anyone know of a difference
> > > between 1.4.x and 1.6.x that could cause this? I tried loading
> > > prototype_update_helper.js to see if it gives me any insight but it
> > > fails (console not defined in FF?)
> >
> > > I hope you find these useful, and I'll try to fix up the colorpicker
> > > for 1.6.0.2 as soon as possible.
> >
> > > -j
> >
>
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