Drupal and TinyMCE

I've been working on a Drupal project to build a CMS for the production and management of very specific content.

The emphasis is all on the backend system, with tight field size limits (character count including markup) and restricted input (specified tags only).

Becuase of this I needed to use TinyMCE fully - restricting the valid_elements set, and adding event handlers for paste, and keyup.

I also had to do this in a moderately deeply nested form.

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Drupal forms require a submit button

I'm working on an AJAX heavy site for a defined audience who all have JavaScript - so I have a form with no submit button that gets submitted by an change handler.

Normally I'd make sure the site was fully accessible - but not on this project so I just got rid of the submit button. I got the JavaScript submit working only to find my Drupal form no longer worked.

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Phonegap

Phonegap is an open source compatibility layer for mobile development.

It provides access to common mobile functionality such as geolocation, sound, contacts etc via a JavaScript API

The idea is to make phone development more like web development, and to make deploying cross platform pas much easier.

This project looks to be in fairly early stages, but already very powerful.

www.phonegap.com 

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