track changes functionality

Sam,

I don't know the answer to your question, but I am working a project to add very basic change tracking to an FCK edit field. As yet, the code is not packaged as a plugin -- it's just a javascript file loaded into the parent page. The code was also written specifically for Firefox, and almost certainly needs additional work to run on IE. Basically, changes are tracked using different font tag colors. Whenever a user enters (or pastes) new text, the their font color is applied to the text. Backspace, delete, & cut result in the text being struck out. The limitations of this approach are:

1) The user cannot also use color font tags or strike tags in the document is being tracked.
2) There is no history of changes -- the editor only knows about the last change, so if user A's enters a change and user B strikes out that change, the editor won't retain the fact that user A ever entered the stuck out text.
3) Multiple midas level functions are called for each tracking change, and because midas handles the undo buffer, multiple undo's are required to undo a "single" tracking change.

Aside form these limitations, it works pretty well on simple documents. I am willing to share the code, if anyone is interested.

Ed

Some people have expressed an interest, so here is the code:
https://vmacs.vmth.ucdavis.edu/userpage ... ngDemo.zip

Hi

The link to that demo zip file seems to be broken, do you have an up to date link?

 

Thanks

Andy