[news.eclipse.webtools.jsf] Re: Extending the HTMLEditor with custom ope

[cameron.bateman@xxxxxxxxxx (Cameron Bateman)]

> You are rendering the Html/Css yourself, are'nt you?  


Yes, we have an extensible framework of what we call "tag converters" that 
take a source tag (i.e. h:outputText) and produce HTML/CSS.  The design 
pane then renders it.

> How do you do that? What are the core rendering classes?

Can you be more specific about what part of the rendering you interested 
since, as you rightly point out, it is a little complicated.  If you have 
a specific example of something you'd like to do, it would probably be 
helpful to walk you through it.

> What do think about SWT Composer? Why are'nt you using Mozilla?

I haven't looked at SWT composer.  We certainly have the ability to target 
other HTML renderers/editors (we already do this with the Preview tab).  
The main difficulty is being able to support input languages that are 
non-HTML, since we need to first approximate the rendering _and_ maintain 
enough bridging information that when you edit the HTML visually, we can 
map this back to the original format.

If you have requirements in this area, please launch enhancement requests 
at bugs.eclipse.org so that we track and address.


--Cam