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Proxima 2 WYSIWYGGeneric Editing For The Web

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Date: 2008-12-18

Time: 11:45

Room: BBL room 471

----+++ Speaker: Martijn Schrage

----+++ Title: Proxima 2.0, WYSIWYG generic editing for the Web

----+++ Abstract

In line with the Web 2.0 trend, an increasing number of web sites offer 
visitors the possibility to modify and add content through some form of 
editing. However, the editors provided are either basic text editors 
that are awkward for editing complex presentations, or custom-made 
editors for a specific type of content. A generic editor could be used 
to create powerful editors with little effort, but has the problem that 
it needs to be installed on each machine it is used on.

A server-based generic editor can help solve this problem. It will allow 
the easy creation of WYSIWYG editors on web-pages, without requiring the 
editing user to install any software. Instead, the browser runs a simple 
script that draws a rendering of the edited content and sends edit 
events back to the server.

The Proxima generic editor system has a layered architecture that can be 
modified in a straightforward way to support a client-server model. The 
resulting Proxima 2.0 will allow web-based WYSIWYG editors for a wide 
range of document types to be created with little effort.

In the talk, I will give an overview and demonstration of the Proxima 
system and its 2.0 extensions, for which a prototype has been implemented.