[Yanel-dev] tinyMCE link and image lookup problem

[simon]

Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
> simon a écrit :
>> hi all
>
> Hi!
>
>
>> i just noticed a real problem within our tinyMCE integration. at the 
>> moment the lookup will insert path always  with '../'. the lookup 
>> doesn't know anything about how relative the document is to the 
>> inserted path. i think the lookup needs to know this. probably the 
>> easiest way is to give a back2realm parameter when calling the lookup.
>>
>> and now the big problem number two: tinyMCE doesn't know the correct 
>> back2realm of the document either.
>>
>> and the big problem number three (a very ugly one): tinyMCE shows 
>> broken (or none) images if the document has another relation to the 
>> realm then tinyMCE (e.g {back2ream}/usecases/tinymce.html) has.
>>
>> as said above to fix the lookup problem is think a request parameter 
>> with the wished back2realm value would be an easy way to fix it.
>>
>> but to fix  problem two and three there would be a bigger effort.
>
> I more or less see your point, although I am not sure I see the 
> difference between all issues.
> Maybe examples with full URLs could clarify, but never mind, read on 1st.
>
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>> one approach i can think of would be introducing parameter matching 
>> for resource-types. this is something i miss in yanel for a long 
>> time. i think this would simplify any editor integration a lot (and 
>> also other problems).
>
> Agreed, see 
> http://lists.wyona.org/pipermail/yanel-development/2009-July/003836.html 
> which already had a URL format proposal.
>
>
>> this way an editor would be called with the same path as the web-view 
>> of a document but with a special request parameter, therefore it 
>> would be easy to get the right back2realm value when open the 
>> document with tinyMCE. problem number three would be gone as well.
>>
>> maybe there would be another (uglier) approach: calculating the 
>> back2realm value via the edit-path value. but i'm not sure this would 
>> help to solve problem number three since the solution to this seems 
>> to be setting the tinyMCE paramter 'document_base_url' [1] which has 
>> to be absolute.
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> BTW I assume Xinha is similarly broken and could also be made to work?
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>
>> so the big question is do we want to finally introduce parameter 
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> I think we always did, please step up and submit a patch! :) Bug is 
> http://bugzilla.wyona.com/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7205
> I also did some remotely-related-and-maybe-helpful work on RT matching 
> recently, cf. 
> http://lists.wyona.org/pipermail/yanel-development/2009-December/004194.html 
> and maybe look if the proposed interfaces would suit you.
>
>
>> matching? or does someone has another clean but simpler solution to 
>> this problems.
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> I for one has none.
>
>
>> to be honest i think this problems are show stoppers re releasing yanel.
>>
>> WDOT?
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> I think we cannot say really that our WYSIWYG editors work if image 
> (and asset?) links are almost always broken indeed.
>
>
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Configuration/document_base_url 
>>
>>
>> cheers
>> simon
>
> Cheers,
>    Guillaume