Well, there has been a lot of talk about integrating different editors. I myself have an interest in this because of the lack of support for anything other than Internet Explorer in the current OE.

But the "XML feature" you talk about is not really something you could be without though, for any WYSIWYG editor to work properly with eZ Publish you need to make it send XML back to eZ .. of course you could possibly wrap all content in a HTML block, but that would not be very nice eventually ..

I am not sure what has come of the thought of integrating something with eZ other than OE ..

short answer:

There may be one coming soon.

long answer:

At the ez conference we discussed the possibility of getting a linux online editor into ez. The end result was that the community would likely develop such a project but initially ez would do the work to integrate an open source editor (possibly http://bitfluxeditor.org/) to get us started... Although we linux users need this it should work on any platform.

Paul

``Although we linux users need this it should work on any platform.'' ...but only on mozilla & derivatives.

jeroen.

Regarding Bitflux: I think its best to wait a few more weeks for the next release before deciding anything. It will have webdav support, so it should not be too hard to implement.

The fact that mozilla is necessary doesn't bother me too much: at least you increase the number of platforms and it won't be worse compared to installing the ezp DE.

-paul

Whatever happened to this project? Did anyone successfully integrate a full featured WYSIWYG editor into ez?

Cheers,

Fraser

Hi,

"BXE 1.0 is a completely rewritten Editor. It has not much in common
anymore with the "old" Bitflux Editor." It is Version 0.93 a bugtesting release for 1.0.
You can test it and help them with your reports. You can try to put it into ez.

[...]
What's New in Bitflux Editor
****************************

* Based on Mozile/eDOM (http://mozile.mozdev.org)
* On-The-Fly Relax-NG Validation
* Extensible and exchangable widget system
* To a great extent event based -> easy adding of own event handlers
* Full support for XML Namespaces
* Native XHTML support
* No need for CSS styles, if in XHTML namespace
* "XSLT-less" mode. No need to write XSLTs, if you don't need it.
* Copy&Paste into and out of Mozilla
* Tag and Source-Edit Mode directly in the context
* Cleaned up GUI
* WebDAV support
* Delete over paragraphs
* Nicer attribute edit dialog
* Table Editor
* Image Inserts
* and many more..[...]

http://lists.bitflux.ch/pipermail...editor-ann/2004-February/000010.html

Related Treads:
Use OpenOffice ooo or others as an editor:
http://ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/document_management

Mozile:
http://ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/mozile_xml_xhtml_editor_
Morphon:
http://ez.no/community/forum/sugg...s/xml_editing_take_a_look_at_morphon

htmlarea:
http://ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/online_editors
http://ez.no/community/contributions/hacks/ezhtmlarea1_0
http://ez.no/community/contributi...emplate_primitive_editor_for_xmltext

Greetings ekke

Thanks Ekke for the excellent summary on the issue.

If anyone has already integrated an xml editor into ez publish (newer than HTMLArea 1.0) it would be fantastic if they could share which one and how they did it in one of these threads. Even better, an extension in the contributions section would be fantastic.

I know that a free editor would compete with and undermine sales of ez's Online Editor, but a wysiwg editor has become sort of a competitive prerequisite for a CMS, even open source. I recognize the need for cash flow, but in the long run it is the size of the installed base which is ez systems' key revenue generating asset.

Cheers

Hi,
news from Bitfluxeditor:
http://cvsdemo.bitfluxeditor.org/examples/inlineXHTML/

[...]chregu wrote:

we're busy working on BXE making 1.0 ready.
We added some cool new features to the latest snapshots:

- Image Selection with the drawer library from kupu

go to http://cvsdemo.bitfluxeditor.org/examples/inlineXHTML/
click on "Edit this Article" then click on the editable text. Now click
on the image button on the top and see the new thing in action

[...]
and here is the whole message with more interesting news:
http://lists.bitflux.ch/pipermail/bx-editor-dev/2004-April/000349.html
This is one good posibility to add new content, the second is via OpenOffice ooo
http://ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/document_management
Greetings, ekke

Modified on Wednesday 28 April 2004 12:10:20 am by Ekkehard Dörre

With regards to what Frasier said:

I would have purchased the ezPublish online editor already but it just isn't feature complete enough to make it worthwhile. The implementation just isn't slick enough to make it work.

Why couldn't eZ Systems just take an open source editor with an appropriate license, rework it a little to integrate it into eZ Publish and then charge for it? I would be *very* happy pay the fees if it had enough features, and was slick enough, and editors like bitflux easily meet that criteria. It looks like the bitflux editor has an apache license derivative as its license which would be fine.

Regards,
Willie

Regardless of whether ez will ever answer the questions we have asked in this thread and others, we have started on an oe, which works in a certain way right now:

Read the last few entries to:

http://ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/online_editors

As you can see more needs to be done...

paul

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