The Mozilla editor provides HTML and plain text editing functionality
in Gecko-based applications. Internally, the editor code manipulates
page content primarily using DOM calls, so it is a true DOM-savvy
editor. It also supports IME (international text input), and is mostly
accessible from JavaScript.
The editor is currently used in three different ways in the Mozilla
codebase, though each application shares the same underlying code:
- Composer -- a fully-fledged HTML editor, for writing web pages.
- Embeddable HTML editing widet -- a rich text editing tool, used
in mail compose, instant messaging and other areas.
- Text widget -- the editor is used for text input and text areas,
both in XUL (e.g. the URL bar), and in HTML form controls.
Embedding the Editor,
www.mozilla.org/editor/editor-embedding.html.
- kein Site-/ Link-Management
- Bescheidene Editiermöglichkeiten
- Basisfunktionalität für einfache HTML-Seiten OK
Composer is a component of the Mozilla web browser package. Composer
is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and is actually quite good. The WYSIWYG view
allows display of tags, which is useful.
One thing I personally don't like, as a serious web page designer, is
when I switch to HTML source-code view, the cursor jumps to the
beginning of the document. Namo (see above) manages to keep the cursor
in the same place. Microsoft FrontPage has the same limitation as
Composer, re the cursor not keeping its place.
Also, Composer's source-code view doesn't have syntax color
highlighting.
If you have installed the Adobe SVG Viewer plugin, Composer will
display SVG graphics. Though, there is a bug -- you open a page with SVG
graphics, they display fine -- you open another web page, and one of the
SVG graphic files is the same as one on the previous page, it won't
display on the second page. Hope they fix that.
Overall though, it's good, and there is the advantage that it's
multi-platform: Windows, Linux, etc. My update on
Aug.2, 2002, is Composer has become my favourite everyday web page
creation app.
After you have installed Mozilla, if the install process has not
created a desktop shortcut specifically for the Composer module, you can
readily create one. The properties box for the shortcut needs to have
this:
Start in: "C:\Program
Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla"
Target: "C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" -edit
That little "-edit" on the end is what does the trick to open only
the Composer module of Mozilla.
Source:
www.goosee.com/best/#Mozilla%20Composer; Access: 16-Nov-2002.
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