[Javascript] Re: Standards

[Rodney Myers]

Jaime,

I had never heard of this editing feature and it does seem to be MSIE only.

I can think of an immediate application in an offline MSIE context.
Orders from my website now come to me as HTML files attached to emails.
If I save the incoming file order.html and run a special page/script I can
- add an invoice number
- strip some of the 'tail'
- add a footer block
- save it  with that number in the file name. (This uses FileSystemObject)

Using this editing feature, I could, before printing, add a quick note 
to the client - bearing in mind no-one can read my handwriting including 
myself.
All I need do is add the div to the server code that constructs the  
incoming file or the footer addendum.

Also, using script to access the input text in a DIV with ID/name it 
would be possible to extract the input data.
This could then be written to a local file using FileSystemObject, or 
inserted into hidden form inputs and sent to a remote script
I don't think I shall actually do this one any time soon, but who knows...

Rodney


Jaime Iniesta wrote:

>I still don't understand it. I mean, of course JavaScript is useful for lots
>of reasons, what I'm asking is about this particular feature that lets you
>edit the content of a web page. What good is it for, if you cannot save what
>you typed? If you could refer to this edited content with JavaScript and
>then process it, send it to a server, anything, but if not, it's just as
>useful as a notepad that won't let you save what you just edited...
>
>Jaime
>
>  
>

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Rodney