On 3 August 2010 11:18, Marco Schuster marco@harddisk.is-a-geek.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Jacopo Corbetta jacopo.corbetta@gmail.com wrote:
However, the "editing mode" provided by browsers is a nightmare of incompatibilities. Basically, each browser produces a different output given identical commands, so currently MeanEditor is not completely up to the task. An external application might be an interesting solution.
I don't have the link ready, but Google solved this in Google Docs by re-implementing this in Javascript... they intercept mouse movements/clicks and keyboard events and then javascript-render the page. Given the complexity of wikitext, I fear rewriting the parser in Javascript is the only way to get a 100% compatible wikitext editor...
*cracy idea here*
What about compiling PHP for the Flash extension? http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/alchemy/
Then you can use a modified version of the original PHP files.