Sneaky Abstractions

Just found the Textile Editor Helper, which seems to be very similar, but not WYSIWYG, which can be a good thing. It’s a Rails plugin, but I’m guessing the JS part can be used outside of Rails.

This looks pretty frikkin sweeeet..

There is one little thing on my wishlist, and thats for a class to be applied to a style link, so the user sees it is pressed. Right now you can’t really tell what textile will be applied until you type, which can lead to confusion.

Other than that, this is damn close to being perfect.. great work!

Ahh, one more thing, it would be cool to be able to have custom text as link instead of just the href itself.

Steven: If I’m not misunderstanding you, I think it already does what you want. There’s a problem with how it works, however, because when you double click a word, the selection includes the surrounding tags which are used to determine if it’s currently “inside” a particular style type (i.e. em or b). If you manually mark the word by dragging over it or position the cursor inside the word boundaries, it will add the “active” class to the link.

The link thing kind of has the same problem, because you’re supposed to edit the link text inside the window, but again if you double click it will replace the entire tag, so you have to manually select the word in order to be inside the a tag..

This kind of sucks, but I haven’t had the time to look into it yet..

Re: highlighted style button

It apparently works in Firefox, but not in Safari (2 or 3)

Hi. What about enabling editing of list elements, or paragraphs. Will it be possible to adjust to support this?

Thanks, Shlomi.