Coded Silicon Product Proposal

HTML textbox

Light-weight HTML textbox control for .NET developers.

The market is saturated with "Rich Textbox" editors, so why should we propose another? Competing products offer rich features including color coded syntax, text layout formatting, undo and redo functionality and many user selectable text formatting features. These features make these products adaptable to many applications including rich-text word-pads, programming language editors, XML/HTML editors and visual-responsive data entry controls.

Our own requirements for a color coded HTML editor lead us into this competitive field. What we found in competing products was the ability to catagorise lists of keywords for chosen font styling. For example the keywords "FORM" and "TABLE" could be catagorised as elements tags with a bold font and blue foreground color. HTML rules however, dictate a complex algorithm in conjunction with angle bracket tags. For example, the word "FORM" is not a keyword unless it is preceeded by a "<" tag. Additionally, the HTML language is becoming less focussed towards globally defined keywords and more directed towards keywords defined within ever-changing namespaces. XML is a perfect example of this phenomenon. XML can be embedded into HTML. HTML snippets are embedded into XSLT. XSLT is seen as the next generation of HTML - putting aside the grudge people have with the perculiar XSLT syntax structure. What all this told us was that an XML/XSLT/HTML editor has to use an algorithm without specific reference to any keywords.

We set about developing our own XML/XSLT/HTML editor and even though the aim was to use it internally, we are now preparing this product for the shareware domain.

Status: Under construction