I don't know what are the functions that you might need and if they are even possible in a web browser, but:
1) You can adjust the buttons as you like, just look at the samples. 2) This should be quite easy with version 2.4, now you have to do it all yourself or use something like the onkeydown plugin. 3) Some browsers (I mean IE) doesn't like new tags and can ignore anything that he doesn't understand, specially if you are creating new tags without a namespace. There are some plugin s about how to work with other tags that aren't in the default configuration for FCKeditor (like marquee, abbr and acronym) 4) It's a matter of what do you want and what does the browser allows you. Maybe you can't work directly with your tags but have to create fake tags like I did in the custom XML tags plugin. 5) You can use the javascript API of the editor, then it depends on your browser and your plugin to let you control the embeded player or not.
Yes, I suppose I could use 'fake' tags like you propose. Can you expand on that thought a bit? I assume fake tags may make the issues with item 3 disappear, right?
With fake tags I mean that if you put something like <par></par> in IE it might work or not: maybe the pair disappear as soon as the html is loaded in the editor, or when converting the editor content back to a html string some attributes might be missing. If you try to use a self closing tag (<marker /> for example) then it's quite sure that it will give you trouble.
So one answer is to do a replace in the text that is sent to the editor and turn special elements to standard html tags like div, span or table with some special attributes so you might recognize them again when converting back to html.
Your fist task is to create an html page that shows what you want, you'll find if there are problems or not, maybe everything works fine and it's very easy, but you have to try.
RE: Smil editing
1) You can adjust the buttons as you like, just look at the samples.
2) This should be quite easy with version 2.4, now you have to do it all yourself or use something like the onkeydown plugin.
3) Some browsers (I mean IE) doesn't like new tags and can ignore anything that he doesn't understand, specially if you are creating new tags without a namespace. There are some plugin s about how to work with other tags that aren't in the default configuration for FCKeditor (like marquee, abbr and acronym)
4) It's a matter of what do you want and what does the browser allows you. Maybe you can't work directly with your tags but have to create fake tags like I did in the custom XML tags plugin.
5) You can use the javascript API of the editor, then it depends on your browser and your plugin to let you control the embeded player or not.
RE: Smil editing
RE: Smil editing
So one answer is to do a replace in the text that is sent to the editor and turn special elements to standard html tags like div, span or table with some special attributes so you might recognize them again when converting back to html.
Your fist task is to create an html page that shows what you want, you'll find if there are problems or not, maybe everything works fine and it's very easy, but you have to try.