Re: FCKEditor, TinyMCE, ... I need a light weight WYSIWYG HTML Editor

Warren Vail wrote: > A textarea is a simple editor, I am assuming you want something better than > that, or you wouldn't have looked further. > I just tried Demo and got this: "Sorry, you must have Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher to use the WYSIWYG editor" ?!? I'm using FF. -afan > Have you heard the expression (there is no free lunch), it applies here. > Strictly speaking, a textarea is a wysiwyg editor, (what you see is what you > get) you just don't see or get very much, one font, no formatting(other than > what you can do with a carriage return, or a space bar). > > These editors can be very complex, but you do have some control in most of > them to manage the complexity that you reveal to your users, and to do that > you will have to know more about it than your users do (again, no free > lunch). > > I like TinyMCE, it allows me to make sure that my users have a simple > interface, and is real easy to setup (relative to developing the whole thing > myself), but most of the ones you cite can probably fill that bill. > > Warren Vail > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: mike [mailto:mike503@gmail.com] >> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 12:05 PM >> To: AmirBehzad Eslami >> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net >> Subject: Re: [PHP] FCKEditor, TinyMCE, ... I need a light >> weight WYSIWYG HTML Editor >> >> On 8/17/08, AmirBehzad Eslami <behzad.eslami@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Dear list, >>> >>> I'm looking for a light weight WYSIWYG HTML Editor to allow >>> >> users to >> >>> send private messages to each other in a forum application. >>> >>> FCKEditor is too complex and very huge for my purposes. I want a >>> simple editor. What do you recommend? >>> >> WordPress has tweaked tinymce a lot to maintain <p> spacing >> and code snippets and embedded objects. We've tried both at >> my job with various configurations, both have had issues - >> but we've had the most success and our users have been happy >> with WordPress's configuration (which uses a couple custom >> javascript things + specific tinymce >> configuration) >> >> I've been trying to examine the differences so I can create a >> reusable standalone component we can use in all our various >> apps... but WP has hooked in a lot of custom code and it's >> been a bit annoying trying to split it out into a single >> reusable javascript file and stuff. Almost done though. I >> went overboard and tried to make it more generic by renaming >> and cleaning up the functions to not need any WordPress >> callbacks and stuff and wound up messing it up, so I have to >> go back again and probably re-create it from scratch.. Doh :) >> >> Honestly in a forum setting you can just give them a bbcode >> howto/link on the side and let them put in their own bbcode >> (which can be a strict subset of HTML) - or even just allow >> HTML tags and limit what they can do. Loading up a >> javascript-based thing even if it's pretty lightweight is >> still annoying and I could see that being overkill for a forum. >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To >> unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >> > > >