Rich text editor for all browsers


Christopher talk about java applets to  make a rich text editor for different browsers.

That's a valid point. Why in .Net, we don't have the equivalent of applets ?
I see something for IE, but I would prefer a universal solution.

I imagine all the benefits I can have, not only for an editor, but to run some small .Net windows project through a browser.

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  • Applets never became very popular and people are more concerned about security now than in '97.

  • Ted I am not agree with you. OK for the security but they are still popular.





    So if it's not applet, why not something equivalent to let me run a .Net Windows project.





    I take for example the differences that you have in GDI+ between a windows app and the web.





    I would like to interact on the web like a paint application or something like that

  • .Net does have something that will run in a browser (just IE though). You can host a WinForm within a Webform. Just put the dll on your website and then refer to it thru the object tag. set the classid attribute to your dll and then a # and then the class name for your control.





    Like this: classid="ieControl.dll#myControl"





    DonXML

  • Thanks Don. But I don't want to look to greedy ;-) but what's about other browsers ?





    I am trying actually to do so for a Rich Text Editor, and to make it working for every browsers.





    Reading Christopher post, I found that's indeed you have already this done with applets.


    I would like also to finish one project I have in mind for my school portal, a kinf of Paint application using GDI+. Quite difficult outside a windows project isn't it ?


    And the list is not finish, like small games, etc...

  • If you want to do GDI+ apps in the browser, use SVG instead. As someone who is working on a SVG rendering engine using GDI+, I've got to say that they are very close. And SVG is cross browser. Well most browsers either have a plugin (ugh!) or handle it natively (Mozilla & XSmiles).





    Right now you can add the SharpVectors Viewer to your pages for IE, to get SVG in IE, or you can use Adobe's SVG viewer.





    DonXML

  • Don SVG is an option. But the problem is the plugin stuff.


    In schools, well in Ireland, they have some strong security policies in place.


    Duncan, yes an exe why not in an Intranet, but as an internet, no way.


    The other problem is that the Paint application f.e, must be embedded in a web template.


    I know I sound stubborn but I try some fantastic stuff with GDI+, but on the web the only things I see until now is to draw ellipses or circles. Not really fancy

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