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Well don't I feel silly. I have written 700 lines of beautiful Javascript that implements WYSIWYG editing. I deal with ranges and selections, I have elegant recursive tree rewriting functions to handle deletions, even if it is the left half of a LI back to something before the enclosing UL… yeah, that is tricky… and much more… But I can't copy and paste. The browser won't enable the paste menu item for my item.

When suddenly…

In the process of trying to see how tinyMCE got paste to work, and also realizing that I couldn't find the code they used to move the cursor in response to an arrow key I discovered contentEditable and its buddy designMode which Firefox will require. This is now a much easier problem. I will throw away all my beautiful code and just make a handful of API calls.

And just when I thought there was still a reason for giants to roam the earth.

Darn it. Now I'm going to have to implement some sort of attachments. I'd like to give you this code, but I don't want it enlarging the front page.

Comments and articles also get a preview button now so you can see what they will look like before you post them. Not too critical since you can edit them afterwards, but I suppose people are conditioned that think they can't edit comments.

I pulled the boilerplate html into a NormalPageTop() and NormalPageBottom() function. It looks gross, but it gets it all together in one spot. Each of these takes a dictionary argument to supply non-standard values for various pieces of the boilerplate.

This gets femtoblogger back to right at 1000 lines of code with the RSS feed added.

Update: and right back over 1000. I changed things around so clicking on an article title takes you to a page with just that article. There is now a little edit pencil on the articles to edit them, like on the comments.

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