The main point of my previous three months goals was making a text editor on Ian's stuff http://tinlizzie.org/svn/trunk/bottle/. I admit that it has not been finished in terms of building a really useful text widget. Making a text editor looks simple requirement. But even just a substitute widget for Squeak's ParagraphEditor from scratch is quite complicated because it has to deal with a large number of issues like text layout, scroll, font rendering, etc. To make the goal clearer and smaller, I propose one concrete prototype and one real implementation.
An authoring tool for Active Essays on web browser.
It will be direct successor of TileScript http://tinlizzie.org/jstile/ and YUI-based tool for Active Essays http://tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/alan/essays.html. Those were difficult to use even sometimes for myself because they were too heavy and UI was complicated. The focus of this project is brushing up the UI. I will not add a new function, but it will have enough features to express some of examples in Appendix A of STEP paper and Ted's puzzle.
- Basic text emphasis (header, list, in-line image)
- Wiki based collaboration mechanism.
- "include" mechanism
- OMeta/JS can be used through "include"
- Supported platform: IE6 and Firefox3
A basic widget component for Active Essays on Ian's stuff.
This is a real stuff based on above prototype. Every necessary widget which needed for text editing including text emphasis and in-line image will be implemented. Wiki-based collaboration part won't be included.
This text widget can be used a part of Ted's DB Jr.
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