[CS-FSLUG] Browser Text Editor Application

[EnzoAeneas]

You could always roll  a javascript editor into an extension for Firefox or
Chrome and then add your own save and load buttons that save/load to/from
the local file system.

OR -
have your webpage open up a separate page and write your output to it as
text so that you can use the browser's save mechanism and give it a field
that you can type a path into to open using XmlHttpRequest and a file:///
protocol. You may even be able to use a dummy upload input on a form so that
you can use the open file dialog and then use javascript to read the path
from it and upload it using XmlHttpRequest or by just opening a new window
to that path and then read the contents of the window using javascript?

Wow that looks complicated when written down, but actually shouldn't be too
difficult.

--kevin



On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Ed Hurst <ehurst at soulkiln.org> wrote:

> I really appreciate your answers, folks.
>
> > Don't know if this will do what you want, as it seems to need web
> > serving, but there's always this:
> > http://ckeditor.com/
> >
> > or this:
> > http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
> >
> > or this:
> > http://www.unverse.net/whizzywig-cross-browser-html-editor.html
>
> I looked at those; they point in the right direction. The last one comes
> closest, but they all emphasize X/HTML formatted output. If I understand
> correctly each of them requires some sort of database behind them to
> capture
> the output. I'm needing something to drop plain text into a file on the
> same
> local system, whatever translates to "~/".
>
> > And there are always GoogleDocs and Evernote, both of which are or can
> > be web-based.
>
> I need it to run on the local system, particularly avoiding a login.
>
> > I can't imagine that there isn't something out there to do what you want!
>
> I don't doubt that for a second. I'm not trying to get someone to write an
> application just for me, but I was wondering if such a thing already
> existed. I realize anything with Java can run JEdit, but that's not exactly
> what I want, since I need it to be in a browser window.
>
> Ed Hurst
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