HtmlArea for Zope

This is a Zope product integrating HtmlArea into Zope. HtmlArea is a free textarea replacement by interactive tools, available at http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/. It allows to edit text and use common options known from text processing programs. You may turn any textarea you want into a WYSIWYG editor. The browser is recognised by client-side code; for non-supported browser, the textarea remains unchanged.

The textarea replacement works for now (v2.03) only for MS Internet Explorer on Windows, Versions >= 5.5, since it uses the editable content feature. You may try the interactive demo here (at least as long as my traffic doesn't exceed the limits) or have a look at my litte slide show. Version 3 will support Mozilla versions 1.3+ as well, but it is currently (June 2003) in alpha.

The Zope product doesn't provide an own object class (meta_type) but a mixin class. If you use this class and its methods, you can easily switch to htmlArea 3 as soon as this is stable, simply by updating this product.

Note:

The Zope product was developed and tested using Zope 2.6.1. It might not work with earlier versions. You can perform a quick check in the README tab of the product (since v0.2.1).

If you don't build products yourself (or are as lazy as programmers commonly are), you can use htmlAreaMixedIn to get a start. This gives you a folder class which will allow all contained objects to acquire the editor methods. If you have installed both htmlArea for Zope and htmlAreaMixedIn, you can import this little Demo and tinker with it.

For all questions regarding the (Javascript) htmlArea itself, please refer to Interactive tools. There is lots of documentation available online.

For questions and suggestions regarding the Zope product, feel free to contact me via eMail: therp (at) apriori.de

Tobias Herp, APRIORI business solutions 2003