Hey guys! HTML editor Q and random rambling

Hey guys,

I'm glad to see a lot of you guys are still around these parts. I have to admit I've only been gone since the end of summer but I'm glad to say I might be making (depending on how much coding I have to do at this new job) a return to these forums :P

I had a good time between tasks last time so I hope this stay will be just as comfortable

On a side note:

Did any of you ever code an HTML editor from scratch? It's a project I'd like to under take but I'm really not sure where to start... any ideas? (I'd be glad to create a new thread in another board where this would be more appropriate...)

Never even dreamed of coding an HTML editor...I'm sure it would be an awesome task to take on board yourself.

As for posting just drop in even if you dont have a prob, we all like a good ol' chin wag from time to time.

Yeah I wouldn't want to make something like dreamweaver... mostly something with very basic functions. Only reason I'd like to make it myself would be for the learning and experience and the right to use it commercially. I'd like to embed it in a CMS I'd design in php (pretty much).

What, Wordpad and Notepad aren't good enough?

Yes, I made one as part of a CMS I made for my dissertation last
year. Wasn't to hard actually - much easier than I had thought it
would be. The JS was only about 300 lines long in the end. Can't
post the code here though, sorry: belongs to someone else now.

Still, there are plenty of other editors out there you can fiddle
with and manipulate to suite your needs [it would be fairly tricky
to build one alone unless you are skilled with JS].

If you do need help though, just post stuff in the HTML section
and I [a few others, too, no doubt] will be glad to help...

--Jon.

by "HTML Editor" you mean WYSIWYG editor built in pure html and javascript, or do you
mean editor like Notepad that highlight html, auto complete it for you and such stuff?

Well it would be an editor with very limited options. Since I want the CMS to be standard compliant I can't allow the editor to have depracated tags or allow the use to embed too much html. Basically I'd have a window to define simple style sheets so he could style his content.

This is simply so that if I'd sell a website to someone they could manage it on their own (with a bit of training) with the CMS I'd code. Unfortunatly a lot of simple editors out there use code that isn't very pretty and, even if the overall design of the site is squeaky clean, destroys the site's integrity.

I'm not too worried about coding the CMS... I'm pretty sure that'll be a relatively simple task. It's mostly the editor I was worried about. Glad to see I can get some help by people who have experience

You may be overly optimistic, ask the folks at drupal or mambo ...

By "relatively" I meant next to the editor which is a part I have no idea how to start. I'm not underestimating the task at hand.. I mean it's easy to make a CMS (and screw it up from every corner)... That's why I'm going to use all the theory I've learned so far to try and come up with a sound design before I start coding.