didn't adobe do this? i can't remember what it was called though.. but it was similar - set up in browser editable areas on existing html
Create - A new kind of web editing interface
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Re: Create - A new kind of web editing interface
#12Please check out mercury editor. Much nicer and active development.
http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/
other notable and far more advanced (over create):
Aloha Editor http://www.aloha-editor.org/
Re: Create - A new kind of web editing interface
#13Please check out mercury editor. Much nicer and active development. http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/ other notable and far more advanced (over create): Aloha Editor http://www.aloha-editor.org/
You should provide a link (even though google is easy).
Re: Create - A new kind of web editing interface
#14didn't adobe do this? i can't remember what it was called though.. but it was similar - set up in browser editable areas on existing html
Are you talking about Contribute?
Re: Create - A new kind of web editing interface
#15I've seen Thoughtbot do this with Copycopter ( https://copycopter.com/ ) as well as Plone and others. It's a great way to sell user-editing features to your clientele, but I would always start with actual copy prior to enabling it as real copy is just as important as functionality for product design. Yes, the marketing folks will just send you a bunch of disjointed word docs and expect you to assume that they'll fill…
I was really excited about Copycopter but found that their "search for the text you want to edit" interface was too confusing for my clients.
Re: Create - A new kind of web editing interface
#16this looks a lot like http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/. Are they both from the midgard project?
Re: Create - A new kind of web editing interface
#17Interesting! I'd love to see this integrated into MediaWiki once it's more feature complete.
Re: Create - A new kind of web editing interface
#18didn't adobe do this? i can't remember what it was called though.. but it was similar - set up in browser editable areas on existing html
Are you talking about Contribute?
found it - was "inContext" which seems to have been scrapped, or at least bundled into something else. http://incontextediting.adobe.com/
which shows the problem of managing something like this through a third party anyway!
Re: Create - A new kind of web editing interface
#19Inline editing is quite nice. I wonder if I am missing something about this: it seems to only offer italic/bold/underline/strike-through and no structural options? Plug-and-play inline editing for various CMSs would be nice. If this had more features, I could see using it with a structured, lightweight CMS like Perch [1] to edit structured content inline with the published pages. [1] http://grabaperch.com/
Does it need structural options? At work, I'm supposed to change a lot of our existing websites over to "Wordpress CMS" because it'll make it easier for the admin staff to modify the website, for updates and such. The problem is, they need to locate the login then they need to remember their account info, then they need to find the right page they want to modify, then they have to do a bunch of other clicks to get wh…
I have similar issues - our website is in WordPress and despite the ease-of-use of this particular package, a lot of people just don't seem to get it.
Some staff and volunteers pick it up quite easily, if they haven't already seen or used it before, but several people just don't do it, and instead I get a phone call or email saying "can you put this on the website?".
Incidentally, do you find a lot of people simply can't be arsed? One of our presenters (we're a radio station) is tech-savvy, has an iPhone, a Macbook, uses Facebook daily and so on. She's also one of the worst offenders for emailing me stuff to put on the website. I wonder if some people just plead ignorance to avoid having to do it themselves...
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, it would be one less excuse if we went to a solution like this - where it's simply a case of navigating to the page, clicking a button and editing it.
Re: Create - A new kind of web editing interface
#20WYSIWYG in HTML with JS? I doubt there is a more painful way to obtain even marginally consistent formatting...