Close, but I don't think close enough. After working with Adobe/Actionscript/Flex/AIR for a while, I appreciate what Steve Jobs said recently when he was asked why Apple doesn't want to work closely with them. He said they were lazy. I think he meant that they have had an unchallenged franchise (with PDF and Flash) for so long that everything is just "good enough" and will be really ready in the next version. What I'd recommend you consider is building on the WordPress blog engine. Almost every variation of user input technique gets implemented early and often because text input is such a core requirement. You get built-in user validation, text-versioning, etc and the free support community is huge. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:51 AM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:

ok, so i'm coding a proofing system.

and wow, i'm impressed with myself and how far i've gotten in just 2 days. i've got a solid engine going already...

in programming, the saying goes that the first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, and the remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the time. and it's true.

but still, to have a solid engine after just 2 days means i think i can have a pretty smooth system in 2 weeks...

but before i go reinvent the wheel...

a question for dkretz on "twisted"...

it was coded in "air", so in _theory_ anyway, it will run on a web-server.

so, don, can you make it do that?

is there any place where it _is_ running on a web-server now?

if someone (like me) wanted to run it on their server, would you make the app available to them?

i'd love to see it run in a browser.

-bowerbird

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On 11-Mar-2010 13:51, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:

a question for dkretz on "twisted"...

it was coded in "air", so in _theory_ anyway, it will run on a web-server.

Adobe AIR is a kind of stand-alone container for Flash and Flex. While Flash and Flex are mostly thought of as "web" technologies what is actually going on is that the application is being sent to your browser and executed there. The net is that the whole shebang is essentially a client-side proposition, and an AIR application does not translate easily into a "just a browser" server-hosted application. What could be done is to have a Flex/LiveCycle/Blaze Data Services app on the server that could manage and dish out page images and whatnot, to allow collaborative operation. ============================================================ Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana@teksavvy.com> Ottawa, ON FreeBSD: Where you want to go. Today.