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tkmc
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Posted: Wed Jun 11th, 2008 05:48 pm |
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Is there any chance that we will see a Mac version?
I see that Safari supports contentEditable. This browser works on both Windows and Mac. Also Firefox 3 is SUPPOSED to support contentEditable as well.
I suspect that MS Word would need to be installed if there is ever a Mac version am I right?
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Keith
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Posted: Wed Jun 11th, 2008 10:39 pm |
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Safari's implementation of contenteditable is still about 50% incomplete. And it is only available in Version 3 which is still beta. The last time they claimed to be contentEditable compatible they actually released it as a style attribute instead of an html attribute and then ripped it back out of later versions. When Safari releases a full w3c implementation in a stable release, I'll be on it. But they've got a ways to go.
Firefox has no intention of releasing contenteditable compatibility on their Version3 from what I've seen.
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tkmc
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Posted: Thu Jun 12th, 2008 05:23 pm |
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It looks like they might have added it to Firefox 3. Of course it is still only a release candidate and not a full release yet.
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/07/firefox-3-contenteditable/
According to this guy it is in Firefox3.a6+
http://www.phazm.com/notes/browser-compatibility/firefox-3-web-developers/
See contenteditable under Other Useful Additions
tracker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237964
demo: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=157048Last edited on Thu Jun 12th, 2008 05:24 pm by tkmc |
Keith
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Posted: Sat Jun 14th, 2008 06:48 pm |
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Yeah well they have the B or C team working on it. Their samples for Firefox3.a6 only work with 20 lines of moz-proprietary code attached in a style sheet. Definitely a work in progress. They can't even figure out the syntax for toggling contenteditable on and off.
The reason I doubt they want to develop it is because their patron Google has built Gmail around designmode. By doing so Gmail has been seriously dumbed down from what it would be if it had been designed for contenteditable from the ground up. If FF supports contenteditable Gmail will have to redesign or face the prospect of some of us releasing competitors to Gmail that will be FAR more user friendly than Gmail's kludgy composer.
Gmail has major architectural faults, especially for business deployment. If FF and Safari get to the point of really supporting the w3c specs for contenteditable (it's a LOT more than just making text editable) then I'd be more interested in developing MailWrx than in upgrading EditWrx.
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