XHTML WYSIWYG Editor

xstandard · Post by **xstandard** » August 22nd, 2004, 10:26 am

The Mozilla version of the standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editor "XStandard" is almost ready. Unfortunately, Mozilla's new scriptable plug-in API announced in June has a bug that needs fixing before XStandard can be released. The Mozilla Foundation prioritizes bugs using a voting system. So the makers of XStandard are asking for your vote to get this bug fixed so they can release XStandard for Mozilla. What's in it for you? You get a free standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editor that runs in Mozilla. If you can help, please vote to fix bug 254280 at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254280

Thanks,
XStandard Development Team
http://xstandard.com

Anne van Kesteren · Post by **Anne van Kesteren** » August 23rd, 2004, 5:09 am

Will the editor work with the 'application/xhtml+xml' type? Or does it only output valid XHTML?

xstandard · Post by **xstandard** » August 23rd, 2004, 6:28 am

Hi Anne,

XStandard is a content editor for content management systems that lets non-technical users author standards-compliant markup. Typically, CM systems store this markup in a database and when a Web page is requested, the content from the database is dynamically combined with the page template (layout) to produce a complete page. How the page is served up is really up to the Web developer. For example, out site serves XHTML 1.1 with 'application/xhtml+xml' content type to user agents that support it and XHTML 1.0 Strict to those that don't. By the way, we have addopted a technique from your blog (almost a year ago) to serve up Web pages with correct MIME type.

Regards,
-Vlad

Anne van Kesteren · Post by **Anne van Kesteren** » August 23rd, 2004, 6:34 am

I understand that, but would it work if my admin page was an XHTML page? :-)

Great job by the way on producing this. Now the rest of the software developers just need to follow...

xstandard · Post by **xstandard** » August 23rd, 2004, 6:53 am

Hi Anne,

If I understand you correctly, you are asking if the admin Web page containing XStandard be valid XHTML and served up with 'application/xhtml+xml'. The answer is Yes. All you have to do to add XStandard to a Web page:

1. reference it using the <object> tag

2. add a hidden text field to the page

3. add a JavaScript function that moves data from the editor to the hidden field just before the page is submitted.

All 3 steps can be done in a standards-compliant manner. There is more info on this in our online documentation - select "Web Integration" in the left margin.

Regards,
-Vlad

Anne van Kesteren · Post by **Anne van Kesteren** » August 23rd, 2004, 6:59 am

Nice. Thanks for the feedback.