186663 - Support Midas in Mozilla Firebird

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

A new feature is available within Mozilla called midas which provides HTML
editing abilities within the browser, so that people can do rich email content.

This is something HotMail, Yahoo, etc. use.

So, Phoenix will need to start bringing some composer along for this to work.

I got it working by enabling composer in the phoenix build, but we need to slim
down composer.

All we need is the functionality itself, we don't need to package all the chrome
and stuff.

Comment 1

[David P James]

Is this a bug or an enhancement request? Or as an extension?

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

This is a bug.

Composer was removed from Phoenix to make it smaller, but that is now not possible.

Pieces of composer must always be included in the browser now to make this
editor control on web pages work.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This isn't major. This is a new feature. I'm not sure why you qualify this as a
bug. Not supporting some new Mozilla feature isn't really a bug. 

Comment 4

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 192222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

What about Midas, now that Phoenix substitutes Mozilla-Browser? Will the 
Composer part compiled in again?

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Phoenix will have midas support. Hopefully the midas or composer developers can
help us incorporate midas support without having to compile in _all_ of composer
as is currently the case. 

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

-> bryner

Comment 8

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

I did some testing and this is working as long as we don't
enable-plaintexteditor only.

Comment 9

[Karl Guertin]

I'm not sure exactly what capabilities are enabled in midas, but everything I've
seen midas do can be done in mozile (http://mozile.mozdev.org). This is
considerably lighter weight than composer and may be useful as a substitute.

Comment 10

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

The goal of the midas rich text editing functionality is to support existing web
applications (Yahoo Mail, CRM apps, stuff like that)

We don't want people to have to rewrite for Mozilla.

The editor stuff is actually reasonably lightweight and is already in Firebird
as far as I know.

I'll verify on 0.6.1

Comment 11

[Erik Arvidsson]

Can't this bug be closed now because Firebird do support Midas now?

Comment 12

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Yeah, this is fixed already.

Comment 13

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified fixed 2003-11-09