On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 12:00 +0100, Jim Higson wrote:
Hi all.
I'm testing the ground for writing a java aplet based mini-editor for
mediawiki (and maybe other wikis, although the lack of a standard makes that
difficult).
What I have in mind is a relatively light applet - a more specialised version
of the generic text input, that creates well formatted wiki markup, by
allowing a syntax highlighted or whysiwyg view of the article.
This wouldn't require comunication with the server, other than uploading the
article, as happens now.
The program would be GPL, and as far as possible be designed to work with the
GNU classpath.
What do you think of this idea? My main aim is to make editing easier for
non-technical users.
In case you didn't come across it so far, you might also want to check
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor. There are a few html to
wiki converters around now, a tidy function is in the parser, and the
Epoz 0.74 editor has the xml-rpc/client side things ready. Uses the
browser widgets in Moz/IE and supports the site stylesheet. The tricky
bit is the handling of special wiki things like template includes etc-
those would need to be passed around as comments..
Gabriel Wicke