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Better Browsers for Text & Form Handling?

Posted by Cliff on from the text-editor+browser==emacs-minus-kitchen-sink dept.

Dan Warne asks: "I work as a web content administrator for one of the big newspapers in Australia. The front end of our content manager is browser-form based. Yet browsers all have horrible text editing features; neither Mozilla nor IE support search-and-replace, something desperately needed for anyone who works with a lot of form content. Aside from using a standalone text editor, what software out there provides a better browser-based solution for people who work with text in web forms a lot?"

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  1. lynx! by redelm · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Alright, so I'm a reactionary dinosaur!

    Right now, I'm writing this with `vim`, having hit ^Xe in the textbox that `lynx` opened up. I have all the unimaginable power of vim at my disposal. :)

  2. Tried Firebird? by diesel_jackass · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out Mozilla Firebird and install the Mozex extension.

    Then you can easily associate external editors for textareas. If that doesn't suit your needs you could always write your own extension. (It's pretty easy, I wrote my first one, Image Zoomer, in about 2 days last week.)

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  3. Rich-Text Editing in Mozilla/IE by ManxStef · · Score: 3, Informative
    I'm not sure if this'll quite fit your needs, but, assuming you can edit the form templates in Vignette or whatever CMS you use, surely you could roll your own solution using the default features in Mozilla? See the Rich-Text Editing in Mozilla 1.3 over at DevEdge, and check out the working demo for a good example of what it's capable of and how easy it is to use (or Kevin Roth's sweet cross-browser version).

    You'll need to add some additional code to allow for features such as search & replace, but all that'd take is a few lines of ECMAScript/javascript...