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></blockquote>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <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>