[WM] Feature request for WebMake.cgi: Live EtText preview

[Wes Meltzer]

That's sort of what I'd figured, as a matter of fact.

I don't know that it would need to be live anyway, though, on sescond 
thought. Maybe it could just be 'Preview as your HTML entry stands 
right this very moment'. That wouldn't be that hard.

What do you think?

Wes :wm

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:13:38 -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
> 
> Wes Meltzer writes:
>> Hey all! Time for another feature request (I know this goes 
>> hand-in-hand with my request for Textile support):
>> 
>> Is there any way that the 'Live Preview' window that you have in 
>> WebMake.cgi could show a rendering of EtText [and later, Textile] input 
>> as well as HTML input? It would involve some extra processing -- you'd 
>> have to call EtText.pm, and we'd have to have it say 'Live Preview 
>> (HTML)' and 'Live Preview (EtText)'  -- but it would be really, really 
>> nice.
>> 
>> Especially since I'm setting up webmake.cgi currently for my office, 
>> and they don't know HTML. I'd like them to see what they're looking at.
>> 
>> For the time being, I can set them up using the Textile-to-HTML 
>> processor Dean Allen has released 
>> (http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/), but that's not much of a 
>> solution, if you ask me.
> 
> It would be easy enough to do -- but probably quite heavy on the
> server, since it'd have to do a round-trip CGI invocation every few
> seconds.  (although an "update preview" button which has to be clicked
> would help.)
> 
> Basically, all that's required is a CGI script which takes EtText on
> input and outputs HTML.  The rest is just javascript...
> 
> --j.
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