new forum would be great

gusc · 2006-06-13 05:56:35

I mean forum for developers - where to contribute new plugins, updates etc. and write new some update news about them. U know!

I'm currently working on 2 plugins (actualy remake from ground to top): Image manager and File manager.

Both will be 97% XHTML/DOM2 compliant and use Ajax instead of Iframe (only irfame is used for file upload). Backbone is php/xml driven. Both of them have plugin and standalone versions. Current version is 0.5 beta, but they work fine for me.

ray · 2006-06-15 08:04:22

Sounds interesting. I'm keen on having a look at them

steveo125 · 2006-06-16 10:52:34

New forum sounds like a possible good idea. Really I'd just like to see a shift in progress on Xinha as it's fantastic and a concern I've seen mentioned a few times is that there isn't an amry of developers clearly pushing it forward. This is a shame as wysiwg editing it growing rapidly in popularity.

If a new forum helps new developments get fed back into xinha then I'm for it. - First thing would be a guide on how to write our own plugins, currently we all hack the existing plugins to make our own code work. - or I do anyway.

gusc · 2006-06-19 07:52:48

steveo125 wrote:

New forum sounds like a possible good idea. Really I'd just like to see a shift in progress on Xinha as it's fantastic and a concern I've seen mentioned a few times is that there isn't an amry of developers clearly pushing it forward. This is a shame as wysiwg editing it growing rapidly in popularity.

I totaly agree. I've been using HTMLArea for 2 years now, and only month ago I was desperate with old Image Manager plugin. So I decided to write my own (a little lightweighted and more standards compilant), because there was no further development going on in that area.

steveo125 wrote:

If a new forum helps new developments get fed back into xinha then I'm for it. - First thing would be a guide on how to write our own plugins, currently we all hack the existing plugins to make our own code work. - or I do anyway.

I had to work my way through that plugin development with hacking and studying other plugins. I must say it's realy not so easy for a first time Xinha developer to understand all the functionality of this engine. There are still some good stuff missing - like insertNodeAtSelection for IE (it's just Gecko for now, but i'd like to help make it work in IE). I understand that main target for Xinha are Gecko browsers, but in my projects 90% of users still use IE - so it HAS to work in both Could somebody tell me is there some particular problems for this Xinha function in IE? We could think it through. Also good point would be after sending Node to this function - to return that Node, so we wouldn't have to recheck DOM tree for that node, which in some cases fail.

gusc · 2006-06-19 07:54:08

Btw. In that forum it'd be great to make attachments

gogo · 2006-06-25 23:34:20

No "devlopers" forum is necessary, that is what Trac and the bug tracker in it is for - http://www.xinha.org/

FYI we have 9 developers with SVN commit access and 15 with access to change the Wiki. All developers are busy volunteers who have jobs to do and businesses to run. More are always welcome.

gusc · 2006-06-29 14:50:54

OK. I'll debug my plugins till they are ready for public and then I could ask some access to post them in SVN.

Talking about plugin development in Wiki, I could make some article about that.

I have one question thogh - Why there is no insertNodeAtSelection for IE? is there some particular problems or there is no time for volunteers to make it? This function could speed up and ease plugin development (it is right now, but it's only in Gecko). Well anyway I'll try to make my own version to see if it's possible.

gogo · 2006-06-30 06:08:39

gusc: I'd suspect that IE makes it difficult and that whatever it was written for in the first place only had to be used in Gecko. Email me for SVN & Wiki access (make sure to put Xinha in the subject so I see it).

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