- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:37:19 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Max Romantschuk wrote: > > > > Having considered all the suggestions, the only thing I could really > > see as being realistic would be to do something similar to (and > > ideally compatible with) IE's "contentEditable" and "designMode" > > attributes. > > I support this idea. My experience with our CMS product at work support > the idea of standardizing these features. The approach allows for > designing standards based layouts and making them near-WYSIWYG editable. > > End users with nothing more than MS Office experience can produce high > quality content when the page editing is limited in a sensible way. > (Allow for limited styles etc. to keep things at bay.) Indeed. > > I've added a placeholder section to Web Apps for now (7. Editing). > > I'll be filling it in due course. If anyone has any comments related > > to IE's contentEditable/designMode feature (problems with it, quirks, > > undocumented features, etc), please let me know. > > One important thing (which probably/unfortunately has to be done largely > by testing) is to determine which elements should allow editing and how > they are to behave. In our CMS we try to make only DIVs and SPANs > editable, but according to MS documentation [1] it seems the property > can be applied to most elements. I'll look into it. Thanks! -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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