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Requires installing the application on the user's
computer. (No need to install Java™. A
private Java runtime is included in most software
distributions.)
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Requires installing a very recent web browser
on the user's computer.
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Restriction
At
the time of this writing only very recent Blink-based
browsers like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge and
Gecko-based browsers like Firefox are supported. Apple
Safari, which uses the WebKit engine, is currently not
supported.
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Requires installing a Java 11+ runtime and
XXEW distribution on the server side and running
xxeserver, which is XXEW
backend.
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Multiple document user interface, adapted to authoring
large, complex, modular, documents, including DITA maps or
DocBook assemblies.
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Single document user interface, adapted to authoring
topics, articles, chapters, sections, etc.
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Restriction
Related restrictions:
- XXEW has less toolbar buttons, less menus, less
menu items than its desktop counterpart. It also has less
keyboard shortcuts and its keyboard shortcuts are somewhat
different.
- XXEW cannot be used to insert element
references (e.g. XInclude
 , DITA
@conref) into a document.
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| No restrictions related to “local files”. |
When editing a document stored in a file which is local
to the computer running the web browser, XXEW cannot
render image references (e.g. DITA <image
href="..."/>) and cannot transclude element
references. The reason is that, for security reasons, a web
browser gives a web application very little access to the local
file system. |
| Multiple views of the document being edited may be
displayed side by side. These views are the tree view, styled
views (each view being specified using a different CSS
stylesheet), with or without visible tags, and the XML source
view. |
Only a single view of the document being edited is
displayed at a time. It's possible to switch between the tree
view and one of the styled views. Visible tags are not
supported. The XML source view is not supported. |
Spell checking is
@lang/@xml:lang aware and
automatically switches between dictionaries. |
Spell checking is implemented by the web browser, which
is not convenient to use in the context of multi-lingual
documents. |
| Has advanced import DOCX, paste from MS-Word and paste
from web browser facilities. Can convert XML to a variety of
formats (PDF, Web Help, EPUB, RTF, ODT, DOCX, etc.) |
Has no import or export facilities. |
| Has CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) support. Has
right-to-left writing (Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, etc)
support. |
Typing text using a CJK Input Method Editor
(IME) works but has limitations and bugs(1). No right-to-left writing support. |
| Is also a MathML WYSIWYG editor. |
MathML rendered on screen (by the web browser), but
editable only using the tree view. |
| On Linux, the X Window Primary Selection
is natively supported. |
On Linux, the X Window Primary Selection is not natively
supported by XXEW. This differs from HTML
<input type="text"> and
<textarea> and may be surprising for the
user of the web browser. However, an optional —crude— emulation
is available and works on all platforms. |
