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Let me first say that I'm not against a WYSIWYG editor that works. <br>
<br>
I've just never found one that does. I've tried TinyMCE on Drupal and
have run into more work cleaning up the code it produces than it helped
solve in the first place. I visited the FCKeditor site and managed to
break their demo version.<br>
<br>
Even when coddled and the desired visual effect is achieved - the code
they produce still isn't clean - almost always with superfluous open
and close tags that then throw the formatting off for the rest of the
page. <br>
<br>
This conversation has been had a dozen times on the forum and the
general consensus seems to have been. 'Build one that woks, and it
will be considered, but right now their isn't one that seems to work
*good enough for core*' <br>
<br>
Not to mention we are in code freeze....<br>
<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Sam Tresler
Skype: samtresler
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.treslerdesigns.com">http://www.treslerdesigns.com</a>
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Trae McCombs wrote:
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cite="midb4fcd9cb0610060511v4956eebehff962f3a63e3fd66@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">I would +1 this personally. But the biggest hurdle might
be license. I don't know.<br>
<br>
I think by default though, it would be great to have the easy editor
for things. I have a client that has a bunch of 65+ old ladies using
Drupal, and teaching them html gets scary. :)
<br>
<br>
If we are including things like AJAX and such, why not just trick out
the text editors, of course, offer the ability to fall back to normal
input mode.<br>
<br>
Personally, I'd love to have a vim module for editing in a form! ;)
<br>
<br>
Trae<br>
<br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/6/06, <b
class="gmail_sendername">Drupal Indonesia</b> <<a
href="mailto:support@drupal-id.com">support@drupal-id.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Why
Drupal 5.x must have built-in WYSIWYG Editor?<br>
General discussion · Drupal 5.x<br>
<a href="http://Drupal-id.com">Drupal-id.com</a> - October 6, 2006
- 07:18<br>
<br>
I am a web developer with long experience in PHP Nuke, OpenPHP, and
<br>
Mambo/Joomla. After take a deep look at the Drupal source code and
coding that<br>
available on TinyMCE and FCKEditor module, I can say that next Drupal
version<br>
must has a builtin WYSIWYG Editor. Please CMIIW, but read my reasons
first
<br>
before you have different opinion:<br>
<br>
1. Both TinyMCE and FCKEditor only find <textarea> then translate
to their<br>
editor interface.<br>
Then how to avoid certain Textarea not converted? The anwer is not
possible.
<br>
What<br>
TinyMCE does only disable editor on certain page and FCkEditor will
work if<br>
the<br>
textarea >= n rows.<br>
<br>
The real case is disknode module. When you set disnode to allow more
than 1<br>
file per disknode
<br>
then the <textarea> of file upload list will converted to
Editor. Currently,<br>
you can disable the<br>
<textarea> on this page but the <textarea> for type
description of disknode<br>
will be disabled too.
<br>
You may say, that you can enable the rich-editor-toggle, but you
can't set 2<br>
default value:<br>
the description using Editor and the file upload list using
<textarea>.<br>
<br>
2. A best solution, IMHO, is provide a function in Drupal to call the
Editor.
<br>
This Editor() function simply call the ediitor if available, but if
no<br>
editor installed<br>
then Editor() uses <textarea>.<br>
<br>
What are the advantages if Drupal has Editor() function?<br>
1. Developer like me, will be easier to create module that need both
Editor and
<br>
<textarea><br>
in same page/block<br>
2. We can extend the User Administration: adding capability to select
which<br>
default editor for<br>
each users. We can set that default editor for user is: none (mean
using
<br>
textarea), TinyMCE,<br>
HTMLArea, FCKEditor or any editor that installed by third party
modules.<br>
3. Easier for community website which contain people that aren't not
familiar<br>
with HTML tag<br>
4. Easier for blogging site, since blogger usually a person with
limited website
<br>
knowledge,<br>
such as journalist, teacher, employee or doctor<br>
5. At the rest, Drupal will no doubt called as the killer CMS. This
will add<br>
more powerful to<br>
Drupal, the best CMS that I love.<br>
<br>
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-- <br>
Trae McCombs || <a href="http://occy.net/">http://occy.net/</a><br>
Founder - <a href="http://Themes.org">Themes.org</a> // <a
href="http://Linux.com">Linux.com</a>
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