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List:       quanta-devel
Subject:    Re: [quanta-devel] my tool would be like this...
From:       Linus McCabe <Linus () mccabe ! nu>
Date:       2005-04-08 16:20:07
Message-ID: 200504081820.07199.Linus () mccabe ! nu
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You might be interested in having a peek at conglomerate, an xml editor that 
structures the document similar to this. Although it doesent group things to 
the left like you suggested. 

http://www.conglomerate.org/intro.html

I think your idea is pretty good, especially for writing things like docbook.

/L

On Thursday 07 April 2005 13.29, Jens Herden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wiping the floor and this was an creative time :-)
>
> Inspired from the discussion about VPL I was thinking about my personal
> best tool for the manipulation of HTML/XML and I made a quick drawing to
> show you what was in my mind.
>
> First of all I want to stress that I don't believe that a texteditor
> interface is good for web design. A lot of people are used to it, but that
> is only one side of the coin. I would like to have something that combines
> the tree features with the text editor features. For me it is not important
> that what I see is close to the result, therefore I have a preview. And if
> we could make a live preview that refreshes automaticly, like VPL does, I
> would be happy.
>
> Please look at the attached PDF before reading further.
>
> The ideas are:
> - one block for each block tag
> - one color for one tag
> - fold and unfold of block with the +/- in the top left corner
> - hovering a block would give a tooltip with the attributes
> - a click on a block would select it
> - a block can be copied and pasted
> - a block can be dragged and dropped
> - a double click would open the attribute editor
> - the textblocks are inline editable after a double click
>
> There are a lot of questions not answered yet:
> - how to handle inline tags? They should be displayed and reflected in the
> font (e.g. <strong>) somehow
> - how to connect this to CSS?
>
> Can you follow? What do you think about it?
>
> Jens
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