[Pdx-pm] browser as kitchen sink?
Eric Wilhelm
scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Wed Mar 28 01:23:38 PDT 2007
# from Michael G Schwern
# on Tuesday 27 March 2007 11:29 pm:
>Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>> But, then I wonder why we don't just use subversion. (And,
>> honestly, I don't like to edit much of anything outside of vim.) If
>> the layout engine could play nice with dotReader, a plugin might be
>> able to serve as a client-side preview tool. That, or I could get
>> over my desire to preview and just write everything in unmarked
>> text.
>
>There's the rub. If you're editing content on your local filesystem
> and can't see how its going to look rendered until AFTER you push it
> then you've got a problem. Its like doing your crossword with a pen.
Why can't I see how it will look until after I upload it? Does the
server only run on unicorns?
http://scratchcomputing.com/svn/misc/trunk/code/perl/bin/reloader2
On 3/27/07, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> ...and a RESTful API would enable a thick-client mode.
Thick-client software has some surmountable issues in deployment, but
<textarea> and POST have insurmountable issues in richness of
interface, responsiveness, etc. That, and the cross-browser
compatibility issues which are basically just deployment troubles
percolating into runtime. And how are we going to have real-time
collaboration if everybody is unaware of other users currently editing
the page? How about: "hey joe, I see you are also editing this page,
want to work together?" I suppose you could cobble that together in
javascript, but why not peer-to-peer?
>To the "I hate editing in a web browser textarea" folks I say don't
> downgrade the world you Luddites, GET BETTER TECHNOLOGY!
A browser is for browsing.
I do wish the kvim -> kpart thing had panned out though.
http://adam.blogs.bitscribe.net/2006/07/07/textarea-is-the-most-important-editor/
--Eric
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