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› September 9, 2002

Rich Text Editing for Mozilla

  • Reported by andyed

Compatible with Movable Type, Radio Userland, and most any blogging tool you might be using, composite.mozdev.org is a add-on that augments Mozilla text areas with a popup Composer window. The latest version is still awaiting mirroring at press time, but you can ge a copy here.To use it, hit ctrl-e in a textarea.

Brought to you through a call for help from Scott and bracket-sweat from yours truly and DrBrain. While Composer has it's warts, I hope providing the "killer composer app" will kickstart some serious investigation by the standards oriented community.

There area also very interesting possibilities in the realm of link typing and the recent addition of advanced css to composer.

Unfortunately, providing an inline editor for Mozilla required more moz-foo than I have... But Netscape engineers do have it on the radar.

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1. September 10, 2002 12:15 PM

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Simon Willison Posted…

Excellent! This is a truly fantastic addition to Mozilla, and a project I will be folloing (and supporting) with great interest.

2. September 10, 2002 12:56 PM

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huphtur Posted…

hrm.. what am i doing wrong? i installed/rebootered and hit ctrl+e, all i get is this html editor for the entire page, not for specific textarea.

3. September 10, 2002 02:29 PM

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Eric Hodel (DrBrain) Posted…

huphtur: Are you using a Mac? There’s a problem with the keybindings on Macs, which is possibly fixed in CVS. Also, you should be able to verify your install by clicking chrome://composite/content/composite.js and seeing some javascript load in the browser window.

4. September 10, 2002 02:37 PM

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huphtur Posted…

i got Moz1.1 on a w2k puter. i tried the .js to load, it shows the code.

5. September 10, 2002 02:39 PM

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huphtur Posted…

argh, i am moron. it works!