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RE: IDEA: html editor in tree

It would have to be smart enough to be able to deal with javascript and php
something like this shouldnt mess it up:
<?echo("Blar?>")?>

It might be an interesting thing to see done...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zakaria [mailto:zakmail@telkom.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 7:25 AM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: IDEA: html editor in tree
> 
> 
> Hi, everyone
> 
> Every advanced webmaster knows when it's come to build webpage 
> nothing better than hand coding.
> 
> Anyway if you sloppy like me, you often miss the ">" 
> or you forget the tag attibute. So I come out with this idea
> 
> Think html tag as tree where the biggest root is <HTML> with 
> two big branch the <HEAD> and the <BODY>. And the <BODY> have
> another branch like <TABLE> and so on.
> 
> Get the idea?
> 
> Here the proposed UI
> 
> +---------------------------------+
> | Toolbar for cut, copy, paste etc|
> |---------------------------------|
> |======v| + HTML                  |
> | --+-- | |+ HEAD                 |
> | --+-- | ||+ TITLE               |
> | --+-- | | |+ Some Title         |
> | --+-- | |+ BODY                 |
> | --+-- |  |+ P                   |
> | --+-- |  ||+ Some Paragraph     |
> | --+-- |  |+ TABLE BORDER=2      |
> +---------------------------------+
> 
> On the left section you have pick list for the tag
> and two column grid for the attributes. The grid
> will look and act like properties dialog in Windows 
> Visual IDE (you could fill attribute from edit box,
> pick list or dialogs)
> 
> On right section you have tree where you can expand
> or collapse and some tree operation like:
> o Cut, Copy & Paste
> o Increase or Decrease Level
> o Up and Down position
> 
> You could edit the tree content directly, this is 
> useful for adding big text entry, like code for example.
> Or for typing it if you want faster editing.
> 
> If the ideas implemented in the *right* way we could
> extend this app to not only edit HTML but for XML,
> SGML, Latex Editor and code reviewer or editor for anything
> that has begin and end delimeter.
> 
> It could be nice code reviewer because you're not confuse
> with braces (where this if end) and you could hide (collapse)
> the code you don't want to see or see it in higher level.
> 
> Well what do you think?
> Would you make the app?
> 
> If I could code C and GTK I would make it my self, 
> but I can't so it's up to you to make it.
> 
> --
> "An idea is nothing without implementation"
> Zakaria <zak@telkom.net>
> 
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