I would +1 this personally. But the biggest hurdle might be license. I don't know.
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. :)
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.
Personally, I'd love to have a vim module for editing in a form! ;)
Trae
On 10/6/06, Drupal Indonesia <support@drupal-id.com> wrote:
Why Drupal 5.x must have built-in WYSIWYG Editor?
General discussion · 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.
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