As long as VisualEditor is being used to edit a MediaWiki page, there
shouldn't be much difficulty getting it to do so from any arbitrary page on
the internet. VisualEditor will however use things like ResourceLoader, so
it's not going to be completely stand-alone without some work.
- Trevor
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Jim Safley <jimsafley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the explanation. My application interfaces
MediaWiki and
various content management systems using the MediaWIki API. Put
simply, it adds a textarea to a CMS where users can edit a specific
MediaWiki page. I'm looking for some editing tool that facilitates the
authoring of wiki markup in that textarea. Do you think VisualEditor,
properly configured, will be able to do this? Are there any other
options?
Jim
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
VisualEditor is designed for MediaWiki, but
technically is still fairly
stand-alone. The idea of using it outside of MediaWiki seems to glaze
over
the back end systems that are going to be
required to edit actual pages.
VisualEditor is the front-end, it does not parse Wikitext, it reads in
and
emits out annotated HTML. It depends on Parsoid
to convert from Wikitext
to
annotated HTML and back again after editing. If
you wanted to use
VisualEditor to edit arbitrary HTML, that should work (soon) with some
restrictions because our concept of annotated HTML has certain
limitations
including only supporting certain types of
elements and not supporting
all
conceivable HTML-isms.
I would love to see our work on VE be used elsewhere, but it's not a
central
goal at this time to make it generic enough for
general HTML editing.
- Trevor
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Jim Safley <jimsafley(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Will I be able to implement the Visual Editor outside MediaWiki? For
instance, could I install it as a JavaScript library in a separate
application?
I notice that the original edit toolbar and the toolbar that comes
with the WikiEditor extension are coupled so tightly to MediWiki that
it's near impossible to integrate them into a separate application.
(If I'm wrong, please educate me.) I wonder if the same will apply to
the rich-text editor.
Thanks,
Jim
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