Blogging Roller: Mozilla Midas support in Roller.

Mozilla Midas support in Roller.

I added support for the Mozilla <a href= "http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midas-spec.html">Midas HTML editor control to Roller, but I've found Midas to be pretty flaky. It has crashed Mozilla on me several times today (I'm running Mozilla 1.3). I think it is a little too unstable for general use, so I probably will not add it as an option to the Roller Website:Setting page. Here is a screenshot, just to prove that it was actually working at one point:

I had to do a little work to adapt the <a href= "http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/">Midas demo page for use in Roller, but nothing major. Even when Midas is working, it is far from perfect. It does not support XHTML and the HTML that it generates is not very pretty.

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 06:46PM Apr 25, 2003

Tags: Roller

Comments:

The HTML Midas produces is pretty dire. A better option would be to use Mozile (http://mozile.mozdev.org/), which is a javascript solution, and so a bit slower, but you can change what it produces, but what it produces by default is pretty good. With a few minutes of hacking you should be able to make IE and Gecko-based browsing use the same toolbar to provide WYSIWYG markup (mozile looks for contentEditable="true" tags, just like IE).

Posted by Phil Wilson on April 28, 2003 at 11:56 AM EDT #