[development] Why Drupal 5.x must have built-in WYSIWYG Editor?

[Peter Wolanin]

Do a search in the forums on this topic, and you'll see that the idea
of having a rich text editor in coer has already been discussed many
times.

There was a discussion here: http://drupal.org/node/81297
of how to standardize a CSS tag to tell editors not to act in a
certain text areas.  I think this would be a simple but very useful
advance.

This requires, of course, the cooperation  of the mainters of TinyMCE,
 HTMLArea, FCKEditor etc.

TinyMCE can be disabled more precisely via a theme function, see :
http://drupal.org/node/72940
http://drupal.org/node/68660
though obviously this isn't standardized across editors

-Peter

Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:44:01 +0800
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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.