[Seaside] canvas translator & new version of Seafox

Larry White ljw1001 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 19:36:05 UTC 2011


Seafox is fantastic, but is it possible to output the seaside markup using
the original css selectors rather than generating new css classes?  It would
make it easier to work with an outside designer.

Thanks.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Nick Ager <nick.ager at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been working on an html -> canvas translator. Have a look at:
> http://seafox.seasidehosting.st and click on "Canvas translator". Then in
> another browser tab bring up your favourite web page (e.g.
> http://www.seaside.st/) highlight a section and copy. Then return to the
> "Canvas Translator" and paste into the text box below the default "Rendered
> html" tab. Be amazed as the html is automatically translated into Seaside
> canvas rendering methods. All the tabbed views are editable and you can
> switch between them, allowing you to edit in one and see the translation in
> another. For example try editing some raw html and flip to the canvas view
> to see the translation to canvas methods.
>
> The translator is based on the parser I created for the Seafox Firefox
> plug-in. You can download a new version of the plug-in. Improvements
> include:
>
> * Code formatting better conforms to Seaside's coding conventions.
> * The plug-in now creates an editable syntax highlighted translation (if
> the translation isn't highlighted by again - there's an occasional weird
> first-time only bug)
> * There's a small test-suite for the parser
>
> You can load the code into your Seaside image with:
>
> Gofer it
> squeaksource: 'Seafox';
>   package: 'ConfigurationOfSeafox';
>   load.
> (ConfigurationOfSeafox project version: '0.2-baseline') load.
>
> Note: I've tested mainly on the Mac in Safari. I'd be interested to hear
> different platform browser combinations work.
>
> Nick
>
>
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