Mozile DocBook DemonstrationJames A. OvertonMozile and DocBookDemonstrationThis is a demonstration of Mozile 0.8 editing a simple DocBook document. It is known to work in Firefox 1.5, but you must enable Caret Browsing mode by pressing F7. It does not work properly in Internet Explorer 6 or other browsers at the present time. Editing is structured by a simplified DocBook RNG schema named ../lib/docbook.rng.Known IssuesValidation is not yet done, so changed can be made which render the document invalid.Only a small subset of DocBook elements are used.No commands have been defined other than the defaults, so the toolbar is nearly empty.The toolbar is not centred.The following two sections are editable.What is Mozile?Mozile is a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editing tool for web browsers. The name "Mozile" comes from Mozilla Inline Editor. As of version 0.8, Mozile is no longer limited to Mozilla browsers like Firefox. But it's still an inline editor, which means that it allows you to edit the content of a web page "inline", without switching to another program or to a special mode. With Mozile you can just click in the page and start editing, like you're using a word processor.Mozile is an open source project, and is distributed free of charge under the terms of our license. Please see our homepage at http://mozile.mozdev.org for more information. Mozile is written using JavaScript, and version 0.8 is designed to work in most modern browsers, including Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. However Mozile is still in development, and only Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6 are currently supported.Why Use Mozile?For a long time, people have been trying to edit rich content in their web browsers using HTML text boxes and awkward markup syntax. As wikis and content management systems become more popular, more and more content is being generated in our browsers. Why can't we have WYSIWYG editing, like in a word processor?Without Mozile, there are two incompatible ways to do rich text editing in a browser. Internet Explorer allows you to set a contentEditable attribute on an element, and then edit the contents. Firefox and other Mozilla browsers have a setting called designMode, which lets you edit the whole page, like the old Netscape Composer. The Internet Explorer method is missing some important features, like redo. The Firefox designMode won't let you pick which parts of a page are editable. But the worst part is that both of these methods are trapped in the last decade: they use out of date HTML code like font tags, and they have no idea what CSS is. You're limited to the small number of built-in editing commands.Mozile overcomes these problems in three ways:Mozile works in Firefox and Internet Explorer, and we're working in support for other browsers as well.Mozile uses pure DOM methods to manipulate the document, so the code you get is nice, clean X/HTML and CSS.You can customize commands and add new ones, so you can edit the document in any way that JavaScript, DOM, and CSS allow.