[Kde-pim] Re: HTML support for KMail

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Friday 25 March 2011 16.02.36 Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 02:13:06 PM Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 19.09.51 Sudhendu Roy wrote:
> > > If you remember me, I mailed few days back regarding the same for my
> > > GSoC 2011 proposal. I went through codes in "Blogilo", which uses
> > > editing in HTML document after importing it from web.
> > > 
> > > Can we use the same concept as they have used, i.e. using KWebView
> > > and
> > > using java script commands to achieve required features?
> > 
> > I'm not the expert here, but as long as any potentional scripts that may
> > be embedded in the mail source is prevented from running I see no
> > reason why it shouldn't work.
> > 
> > While I haven't looked at the blogio sources I know that webkit has
> > gained some native options for operations that in the Qt labs editor
> > required javascript.
> > 
> > @Thomas: Do you know what component is bes suited for replacement or if
> > an entirely new editor from scratch would be the best / easiest
> > solution?
> 
> Looks like we're not going to use a QTextEdit-based editor, so from the
> KMail side everything needs to be replaced/rewritten.
> I don't know enough about the existing solutions from Blogio or QtLabs if
> that can be simply taken as a replacement or if they are not complete
> enough and need more work to integrate.

I'm playing with the approach of replacing KPimTextEdit::TextEdit with a 
WebKit HTMLEditor. Initialy this looks ok but who knows what may follow :)

/Torgny
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