World: r3wp

Graham, do you mean a WYSIWYG HTML editor?

Well, yes, but I'm only using a plain text .. so an editor that saves 
the current text regularly.

What I do at present is ... create an empty document on googledocs, 
and save the docid in the database.  I then browse to the doc on 
googledocs, edit it and save it.

I then go back to my rsp page and click on a button that imports 
the document as plain text.

here's how it works http://screencast.com/t/tDIbH8dYj

I guess the wiki editor on Qtask would work for me too.

I collected links to several HTML editor widgets, but I don't know 
how they would do auto-saving

I guess it would need to be programmed on HTML5 local storage

How does Google do it?

Google Docs is an extensive office suite in the cloud, with a server 
backend that does such functionality

Presumably there's some JS that does the saving?

In any case. You could program something with a timer that sends 
the edit field to the server via AJAX, but you'd have to program 
the server as well

Do you know of any editors with such timer features?

I didn't look at them that closely

A standalone editor widget sounds more like something that tries 
not to depend on a server or HTML5

I've seen some editors that are tied closely to php ...

If that tickles your fancy

Those are the ones I need to avoid!

I guess I'm going to see if I can use tinymce .. http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/tryit/full.php
 just was hoping someone had one working well with rsp already.  
tinymce is overspecced for what I need.

Yeah, that's one of the better ones I have bookmarked

This is a small editor with ajax support .. but probably no autosave 
http://remiya.com/htmlbox/index.php/12/demo/ajax-demo.html

but html ...

Needs JQuery

This is odd .. I put the tinymce on my site and I don't see any widgets 
using Chrome but FF works

yet, if I browse to the tinymce website using Chrome, it works there.

Oh well, I'll get it integrated with my web app first and figure 
this out later on.

how about this?
http://rikrikrik.com/jquery/autosave/

or do u need the draft work accessible on serverside already?

no, so this is cute.

just need to make sure that if someone navigates away, they don't 
lose work

is bandwidth an issue? how much is the largest text they might need 
to save?

A couple of pages I guess

because it always gets sent w all the http requests then, if it's 
stored in a cookie. so if u have images in the same domain(/folder) 
for example, then data is sent for those too

imean the saved textarea data

yeah, using cookies for storage isn't a good idea... also since many 
people are using cookie controlers now.

using server side character based logging of changed text shouldn't 
be a problem.   plus, if the browser breaks, when he comes back he 
finds all his text minus a word or two!


just log character changes and send them to the server at every word 
or line. when the server replies, send the next batch.

(using AJAX)

sounds like I would need to write some JS!

Maxim: im guessing graham doesnt really like to write JS and i have 
to admit, i don't like to write either if i can write rebol code 
instead OR it's already been written  :)

You got script tiny : http://www.scriptiny.com/2010/02/javascript-wysiwyg-editor/
This site also provide tiny table, tony menu...

well, I got the tinymce working ...

The ScripTiny stuff looks very good

except bolding doesnt work as a switch (in chrome)... i came across 
this in the 3rd second of trying it...

Sounds like Chrome's fault, then

even in FF the text area loses the focus when i click on the Bold 
button

im preparing a redirect to google maps from an rsp script.
how can i assemble it in a less low-level way than this:

gmaps: http://maps.google.com/maps?

response/redirect rejoin [gmaps "saddr=" closest/address "&" "daddr=" 
params/dest]

i would need the request/query-string functionality but on my own 
parameters which has nothing to do w the request params

Untested, but should work: 

build-query: func [url [url!] spec [block!] /local cnt][
    cnt: request/content
    request/content: reduce spec
    also 
        rejoin [url "?" request/query-string]
        request/content: cnt
]


response/redirect build-query http://maps.google.com/maps['saddr 
closest/address 'daddr params/dest]

okay, thanks... i was thinking about creating an empty request somehow. 
that would have been simpler. otherwise i would just overwrite the 
content...

Automatic output compression (using deflate method)
hmm... it doesn't seem to happen for static files

is that normal?

Yes, it is only supported for RSP output.