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- Yup... an editor is in the works. The very current state of the viola-based
- browser uses output from a standard SGML parser (sgmls), and the displaying
- page is composed of multiple structured textfield/bitmap/whatever objects,
- instead of the unstructured single textfield as in the currently released
- version.
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- Basically I'm taking a crack at a rough 1-1 mapping of SGML document
- structure to viola objects. Allow editing in the objects (ie textfield,
- bitmap), and convert back to SGML. It'll probably be highly structured
- s.t. some people might find needing some getting-used-to. But as the
- document source is SGML, there should eventually be many alternative
- editors. I can't say when this version will be releasable, as there are
- about a zillion of things to do to get there.
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- In the meanwhile, however, I could release a version (HTML based) that
- displays bitmaps (XBM and XPM). I hesitate releasing that version because
- it has some fundamental limitations (hence the remodeling), b/c XBM and
- XPM are very X-ish, and, and b/c it kinda affects WWW's relatively uniformed
- interoperability (linemode browser may then have to say "a picture is here,
- but..."). I don't know. Maybe it's better to freeze HTML now?
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- -Pei
- "All I know-- we've got to change what's happening
- Something good could happen" The B-52's
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