are you saying an average person can _understand_
those setups well enough to _install_ them in an
_average_ web-page, with an investment of 3 minutes?
i mean... seriously. are you actually saying that?
An average person can't write "hello world" in an average web page, because to an average person that sort of technical ability is the province of mysterious web nerds. I'm assuming you mean "an average web designer" or some such.
Could you understand those setups in 3 minutes? No. But installing them is just a matter of copy-pasting a few lines of code from the creator's website. You can do that easily enough.
ok, now i have a much better understanding what you meant.
as i said above, in another reply just now, i'm aiming at
a "sweet-spot" that _might_ be as nonexistent as you say,
i.e., an "average" user who'll edit a few lines of .html.
ideally, s/he should have a good understanding of all the
implications and ramifications of those edited lines, too.
all of which should take no more than 3 minutes, total,
because that's all the average person will devote to it.
meaning it will boil down to calling a javascript file,
plus jquery (or some other package), and _nothing_more._
if it's that simple, this kind of "supercharging" will be
used by enough people that it could attain critical mass.
otherwise, not.
and i'm quite sure that, if you actually do the exercise,
you'll find that none of the solutions mentioned can be
installed in such a straightforward and trouble-free way.
surely not in 3 minutes.
nor with any comprehension of all possible ramifications.
it might be that they haven't been packaged up that way;
or it might be that they are complex enough that it won't
be _possible_ to "package them up" to be that simple; but
-- either way -- they are not now the answer i'm seeking.
i hope this clears up my position. thanks for the dialog.
Ah, I see. The solutions linked above certainly claim to be easy to install, but I got lazy and didn't finish the job when I tried them out. It certainly ought to be possible to set them up with a single line of JavaScript - I can't understand why the sample code doesn't work for me. But fair enough, you were right and I was wrong.
And there's an opening in the market for an easy-to-use easy-to-install JavaScript text editor. Perhaps we should make one.
i mean... seriously. are you actually saying that?
-bowerbird