[quanta-devel] Fwd: [First patch] design mode (was: [Q] replacing the textarea widget)

[Nicolas Deschildre]

On Monday 13 September 2004 04:38, David Joham wrote:
> Hi everyone!

Hi david!

>
> I'm forwarding this from the khtml mailing list since it pertains to Quanta
> and I thought it might be interesting to the team here....
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
> --- Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:47:14 +0200
> > From: Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen at xs4all.nl>
> > To: kfm-devel at kde.org
> > Subject: [First patch] design mode (was: [Q] replacing the textarea
> > widget)
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 05:32:32PM +0200, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > > Am Montag, 6. September 2004 16:13 schrieb Koos Vriezen:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Ok, I'll see if I can do something in the meantime. If I come up with
> > > > a patch we can always see what to do with it (it's not the first time
> > > > a patch is accepted for a particular branch in mind and replaced
> > > > later, if ever).
> > >
> > > All right, keep me informed.
> >
> > There seem to be two ways to do this (as usual, ms and moz way). Looks
> > to me the moz way (http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midas-spec.html), is
> > far more simplier than the TextObject MS way. What should we support,
> > both?
> > Anyway, I've attached some boilerplate code for the midas way. I've
> > already hooked in to the keyevent code from the caret and some very
> > simply editing in HTMLDocumentImpl, just to get something working.

What are you exactly trying to do?
Are you trying to support designmode by using the current Caret code?

> >
> > Making it work somehow, I've took a look at the quanta KHTMLPart
> > override, strangely called KafkaWidget,

That's an old story ;-)

> > and wondered what would be the 
> > best approach getting this to work.
> > I don't think switching transparently to KafkaWidget when entering a
> > design mode, would be the best thing to do.

Indeed.

> > But re-implement/copy code 
> > from quanta has also its drawbacks, eg it's quite some code (but likely
> > some shortcuts too, no parallel node tree needed and access to khtml
> > namespace).

And the quanta code for edition is not clean at all. It is a succesion of 
hacks to work first alone, then with Caret version 1, then Caret version 2, 
and i won't clean the code until the Webcore caret will be merged.

> >
> > So what to do? Commit this and work further on it?

Don't forget that a new implementation of the caret mode is on the way, so it 
will be useless to reinvent the wheel.

Nicolas

> > Or no, entering 
> > design mode means switching to kafka unter the hood? Or we only want MS
> > way of doing this? Or..
> >
> > Koos
> >