Re: [Snowy] Snowy Hackfest Proposal

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 08:49 +0100, Stuart Langridge wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 15:20 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
>> > I believe the main issue Brad ran into is that every browser's
>> > content-editable generates different HTML, making reliable transforms
>> > to Tomboy note XML challenging.  And popular mobile browsers like the
>> > iPhone (at the time, at least) didn't even support content-editable,
>> > making in-browser editing less useful of a feature.
>> >
>> > It could be that existing JS editors have more reliable HTML output
>> > than content-editable via funcooker, but I really have no idea.
>>
>> Just as a data point, we've been through that hell in Ubuntu One. It
>> ain't easy, and I'm still not sure that we're totally out of it...
>>
> we are not indeed, just that we have several hacks to parse correctly
> the output our JS editor does.

Is the server side of this, the JS editor, or a combination of both
something that would be worth open-sourcing and collaborating on?  It
would be awesome to get this "for free" from our friends at Canonical.
;-)

If not, I expect we'll follow the same approach of using lxml, etc.

> Although I investigated a little bit, and there seems to be a couple
> that output correct xhtml:
>
> http://www.wymeditor.org/ is one of them, although I haven't really
> tried for the Tomboy's XML<->HTML conversion, but I think it might be
> worth a try

Cool, we should probably make a wiki page comparing the many and
varied JS editors out there.

Sandy