Using Cactus as an HTML editor and some bugs
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Karsten Wolf
Nov 26, 2013, 6:03:42 AM11/26/13
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Normally I use Cactus just to browse because the editing capabilities still leave a lot to be desired and find/replace is still on the todo list.
Nevertheless, I wrote some html from scratch in Cactus yesterday and was delighted at the ease of element creation.
Start editing, just type the name and indent the elements that belongs inside; not caring about open and close tags or indentation like you have to when using a text editor.
Some observations:
- I'm NOT a html crack.
- The editor needs work for a better flow. Too many structure/text editor switches. The esc key gets hot.
- <meta charset="UTF-8"> needs to be included by hand. I was under the impression that spitting out utf-8 encoded html 5 would suffice.
- <br> are complicated to insert since they are standalone elements. That references an early bug, that the tail section of a node was not saved. Since then Cactus stores the tail, the text after the node, in the attributes.
Until I have support for such cases, you'll have open an attribute editor (ctrl-enter), add a node (return), name it "br", TAB to the value field, enter your text and just close the window.
Nevertheless, I wrote some html from scratch in Cactus yesterday and was delighted at the ease of element creation.
Start editing, just type the name and indent the elements that belongs inside; not caring about open and close tags or indentation like you have to when using a text editor.
Some observations:
- I'm NOT a html crack.
- The editor needs work for a better flow. Too many structure/text editor switches. The esc key gets hot.
- <meta charset="UTF-8"> needs to be included by hand. I was under the impression that spitting out utf-8 encoded html 5 would suffice.
- <br> are complicated to insert since they are standalone elements. That references an early bug, that the tail section of a node was not saved. Since then Cactus stores the tail, the text after the node, in the attributes.
Until I have support for such cases, you'll have open an attribute editor (ctrl-enter), add a node (return), name it "br", TAB to the value field, enter your text and just close the window.
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