[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 19456] [GTK] Editing capabilities

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19456





------- Comment #2 from mbarnes at redhat.com  2008-06-27 19:29 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> gtkhtml_editor_get_paragraph_data()
> gtkhtml_editor_set_paragraph_data()
> 
> ^ For accessing individual paragraph contents(?)

I think this is for tagging paragraphs with metadata, such as whether it's a
signature paragraph or not.  Evolution treats signature paragraphs special.


> Other things to note are the spell checking support and smiley conversion (we
> should make it easy for this kind of cute feature to be implemented directly 
> in the app since it doesn't really belong in the widget).

If WebKit could not try to implement spell checking itself but just provide a
suitable virtual API to subclass and the ability to mark misspellings, that
would be preferable.


> Another interesting design decision is that the editor is a subclass of the
> HTML widget. It might be worth doing this kind of separation over WebView.

To clarify, the HTML editor is just a GtkWindow and contains a GtkHTML
instance.  Evolution's message composer is a subclass of the HTML editor
window.  I anticipate swapping the GtkHTML instance for a WebView instance
without changing the fundamental design.


Also, does WebKit have the capacity to convert HTML content to plain text and
vice versa?  GtkHtml has such a converter but it may need some updating.


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