Rich-Text Editing with MidasMonday April 7th, 2003mike writes: "DevEdge has published an article, written by Doron Rosenberg, that gives an introduction to Midas for web developers. It covers basic usage and the differences between Mozilla's and IE's "The article is a good getting started guide if you're interested in doing cross-platform, in-browser content editing." Does Midas have a life past Mozilla 1.4? With focus shifting to Phoenix as the Mozilla browser component after 1.4, and Phoenix not working with Midas since Composer is compiled out, will Midas be converted to a browser extension? who says composer will be compiled out? Composer code is used a lot in mail (and ergo minotaur). Midas is important for IE parirty and is used a lot in web applications - no way its going to be killed. Composer will indeed be compiled out of Phoenix, I would hope. Midas is a separate story. Maybe this will prompt us to finally kick composer's ass into a reasonable separation of code that's needed for HTML editing and code that's necessary for composer proper. I love composer. Use it daily, I use every part of the Mozilla suite. Because it is a suite. Composer will simply be a separate app, not part of the browser binary. They will share some core HTML editing code (Browser for Midas, composer for whatever) er, that is what I meant, the core editor will still be part of browser. and we can prove people use it on the web so its not a geek feature :) doesnt really make a broswer suite then. Midas can be useful to test out small changes to a website content, using the following simple bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){document.designMode="on";})() Cool, but then changing to "off" doesnt work? This limitation is documented on the midas web page at http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midas-spec.html "Right now, you can't completely turn off editing by setting designMode to "off." Setting designMode to "off" will prevent certain operations from being handled but typing and other actions are still possible." |