forms in html (look like winword)

[Harald Weiser]

Hi Folks.

I recently saw an application using a browser with which you could fill out
forms. You also had a textfield with icons like in winword (bold, italic,
letter-size...) It didnt look like a webpage at all but like a real
application. Was this done by some plugin or how could some realise this?

greetings,

Harry

 

[rf]

Hi Folks.

I recently saw an application using a browser with which you could fill out
forms. You also had a textfield with icons like in winword (bold, italic,
letter-size...) It didnt look like a webpage at all but like a real
application. Was this done by some plugin or how could some realise this?

greetings,

Harry

 

[rf]

Hi Folks.

I recently saw an application using a browser with which you could fill out
forms. You also had a textfield with icons like in winword (bold, italic,
letter-size...) It didnt look like a webpage at all but like a real
application. Was this done by some plugin or how could some realise this?

Damn. Don't you just hate it when you press the wrong button :-(

Plug in. IIRC It comes with the Internet Explorer development kit. It's an
RTF activeX control. Basicaly it wraps the richedit Windows control, the
same one that Wordpad wraps. Have a look at microsoft.com.

Cheers
Richard.

 

[Mitja]

Hi Folks.

I recently saw an application using a browser with which you could
fill out forms. You also had a textfield with icons like in winword
(bold, italic, letter-size...) It didnt look like a webpage at all
but like a real application. Was this done by some plugin or how
could some realise this?

Could have been a Java applet (or some other plugin, but Java is most
probable). Or maybe just some very nifty JavaScript with lots of graphics,
though I doubt it.

 

[SpaceGirl]

Could have been a Java applet (or some other plugin, but Java is most
probable). Or maybe just some very nifty JavaScript with lots of graphics,
though I doubt it.

Why doubt it? Most messageboards these days come with similar features, and
it's all done in JS. Check out PHPBB (http://www.phpbb.com/) for example -
the board itself is in PHP obviously, but the front end has a full post
editor that is very similar to how a rich-text editor (or Word) works, but
it's all scripted in JS.

miranda

 

[Harald Weiser]

Could have been a Java applet (or some other plugin, but Java is most
probable). Or maybe just some very nifty JavaScript with lots of graphics,
though I doubt it.

well, could have been something like I found here

http://www.interactivetools.com/staff/ben/htmlarea3_demo/example.html

Harry

 

[Mitja]

Why doubt it? Most messageboards these days come with similar
features, and it's all done in JS. Check out PHPBB
(http://www.phpbb.com/) for example - the board itself is in PHP
obviously, but the front end has a full post editor that is very
similar to how a rich-text editor (or Word) works, but it's all
scripted in JS.

The post editor shows tags, it's only later that they change into real
styling. Since OP mentioned "looking like a real application" I assumed a

 

[Mitja]

well, could have been something like I found here

http://www.interactivetools.com/staff/ben/htmlarea3_demo/example.html

Harry

Wow, didn't know sick things like this even existed. If you use it, though,
make sure it works in all target browsers (it doesn't in Opera).