Aloha Editor, and Hrungnir user interface

1. Henri Bergius

   Aloha Editor, and Hrungnir user interface

   Wed July 21 2010 13:50:04 UTC
   Hi!
   
   The recently released Aloha Editor (http://aloha-editor.com/) is a
   candidate to provide the basis of the CMS UI shipping with Midgard 3
   (Hrungnir).
   
   Aloha is a very interesting next-generation HTML editor that allows
   editing of valid HTML5 straight on the pages it is on, without having
   to resort to IFRAME or hidden form hacks that previous generation of
   editors like TinyMCE had. This means everything you see on a page can
   be made editable, and it will be "true WYSIWYG" as all CSS and other
   rules on the page will apply "live" to the content.
   
   With Midgard we'd use this in a way that all output provided by the
   system will be marked with RDFa to tell what objects and properties
   are shown in a page. The system can then make those editable via Aloha
   and know where and how to save them with XmlHttpRequest. The advantage
   of this is that you can edit everything, not just the main object of a
   page. The other advantage is that this will enforce us to serve proper
   RDFa, making our sites part of the Linked Data movement :-)
   
   Aloha is built on top of jQuery and Ext JS.
   
   Next week we'll have a hackathon in Helsinki with the IKS project
   where the idea is to evaluate whether Aloha will be able to fulfill
   this role, and to familiarize ourselves with the codebase. My intent
   is to attempt an early integration with the editor there.
   http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Semantic_Editor/Helsinki_hackathon_2010
   
   --
   Henri Bergius
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