Javascript-Based Html Editors

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Chapters: Dojo Toolkit, Tinymce, Ckeditor, Wymeditor, Yui Rich Text Editor. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dojo Toolkit is an open source modular JavaScript library (or more specifically JavaScript toolkit) designed to ease the rapid development of cross-platform, JavaScript/Ajax-based applications and web sites. It was started by Alex Russell, Dylan Schiemann, David Schontzler, and others in 2004 and is dual-licensed under the BSD License and the Academic Free License. The Dojo Foundation is a non-profit organization designed to promote the adoption of the toolkit. Dojo widgets are components comprising JavaScript code, HTML markup, and CSS style declarations that provide cross-browser, interactive features: Skins can be used such as tundra, soria, and others in order to change the look and feel of dijit.Editor along with all other Dojo elements that are used within the same page. Other online rich-text editor programs such as TinyMCE use independent skinning which can be a disadvantage in comparison to a unified approach. One important feature of Ajax applications is asynchronous communication of the browser with the server: information is exchanged and the page's presentation is updated without a need for reloading the whole page. Traditionally, this is done with the JavaScript object XMLHttpRequest. Dojo provides an abstracted wrapper (dojo.io.bind) around various web browsers' implementations of XMLHttpRequest, which can also use other transports (such as hidden IFrames) and a variety of data formats. Using this approach, it is easy to have the data a user enters into a form sent to the server "behind the scenes"; the server can then reply with some JavaScript code that updates the presentation of the page. Dojo provides a packaging syst...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=410380

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First published June 21, 2010