Ben Langhinrichs discussed several AJAX toolkits he was familiar with, and then showed us how to use FCKeditor to provide a rich text experience for the web. By using FCKeditor, users can include pictures and attachments into document being edited by a browser client.

Unfortunately, I can't use a web-only solution as my user base needs to be able to edit documents from either Notes or the web.

I was also didn't think I could convince the Domino administrators to include the FCKeditor files on the Domino server. If a server goes down in my environment, it is rebuilt according to a documented process that applies to all servers. Adding another step to this process only increases the possibility that the step may be missed, which would result in the rich text editor not appearing.

Even if I had an application that was accessed only by a web browser, I wasn't sure I liked the fact that images and attachments are stored as separate documents. Honestly, though, I'm not sure how else this could be accomplished. It seems to me that emulating the Notes rich text experience in a browser is the Holy Grail that has yet to be discovered.

I really do appreciate Ben taking the time to fully research this solution and providing sample code at no charge for all of use to try out. I'm sure he spent a lot of time getting this toolkit to work in Domino, and there are certainly other developers out there with web-only applications who can use what he came up with right out of the gate.

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