[Wikiwyg-dev] Mozilla developers looking to help: minibranch requested

[Alex Vincent <alex.vincent@corp.manyone.net>]

Our company, ManyOne Networks, Inc., has taken a look at your Wikiwyg 
software, and we are impressed.  The capabilities it offers are most 
useful to our services.  We'd like to contribute code improvements to 
your repository to fix bugs and clean up the code base.  As our changes 
may be somewhat hefty, we'd like to do so on a SVN branch on your 
repository (preferably off a semi-stable branch or trunk), until we've 
stabilized the changes enough to port them back to your trunk.  We'd 
also like accounts and access to your bug management system, so you can 
review our suggested changes.

There are two developers directly experimenting with Wikiwyg at 
ManyOne.  Charley Manske, a key member of Netscape's old Composer team, 
is looking into adapting Wikiwyg as one of our easy-to-use content 
creation tools for our 'stewards,' who are building the Digital Universe 
(http://www.digitaluniverse.net).

I am a Mozilla hacker, primarily in terms of DOM, Mozilla's user 
interface, and JavaScript.  For example, I note your ToDo page 
(http://svn.wikiwyg.net/code/trunk/wikiwyg/ToDo) mentions emulating 
Ctrl+K for hyperlinks in Firefox.  That's relatively easy to do, with a 
XUL dialog and a DOM event listener defined in JavaScript.  (Typically, 
I work on tools for extending the SeaMonkey project, but Firefox is 
closely enough related that it's trivial to make the changes necessary, 
and for your web-based application, it's no difference at all.)  I also 
wrote an article several years ago about JavaScript strict warnings 
(http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/serror.shtml), and why it's 
important to fix them, as well as the JavaScript Developer's Dictionary 
(Sams Publishing, May 2002).

I notice you mention the JavaScript Archive Network on your project.  I 
was pleased at its introduction at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 
2005 in Portland, OR.  Whatever I can do to help, I'd like to.

Very Respectfully Yours,



Alexander J. Vincent
ManyOne Networks, Inc.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal
Projects at mozdev.org:  abacus, xulwidgets, verbosio, serverpost