Why Drupal 5.x must have built-in WYSIWYG Editor? General discussion ยท Drupal 5.x Drupal-id.com - October 6, 2006 - 07:18 I am a web developer with long experience in PHP Nuke, OpenPHP, and Mambo/Joomla. After take a deep look at the Drupal source code and coding that available on TinyMCE and FCKEditor module, I can say that next Drupal version must has a builtin WYSIWYG Editor. Please CMIIW, but read my reasons first before you have different opinion: 1. Both TinyMCE and FCKEditor only find <textarea> then translate to their editor interface. Then how to avoid certain Textarea not converted? The anwer is not possible. What TinyMCE does only disable editor on certain page and FCkEditor will work if the textarea >= n rows. The real case is disknode module. When you set disnode to allow more than 1 file per disknode then the <textarea> of file upload list will converted to Editor. Currently, you can disable the <textarea> on this page but the <textarea> for type description of disknode will be disabled too. You may say, that you can enable the rich-editor-toggle, but you can't set 2 default value: the description using Editor and the file upload list using <textarea>. 2. A best solution, IMHO, is provide a function in Drupal to call the Editor. This Editor() function simply call the ediitor if available, but if no editor installed then Editor() uses <textarea>. What are the advantages if Drupal has Editor() function? 1. Developer like me, will be easier to create module that need both Editor and <textarea> in same page/block 2. We can extend the User Administration: adding capability to select which default editor for each users. We can set that default editor for user is: none (mean using textarea), TinyMCE, HTMLArea, FCKEditor or any editor that installed by third party modules. 3. Easier for community website which contain people that aren't not familiar with HTML tag 4. Easier for blogging site, since blogger usually a person with limited website knowledge, such as journalist, teacher, employee or doctor 5. At the rest, Drupal will no doubt called as the killer CMS. This will add more powerful to Drupal, the best CMS that I love.