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Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

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Re: Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

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Post by bergie »

lukeholder wrote: post #19
bergie wrote: post #11

Looks promising! Might be an interesting additional editor candidate in Create ( http://createjs.org/ ). Though, Create is MIT and the wysihtml5 library used by this is GPL, so the licenses are not compatible. Currently we use Hallo ( http://bergie.github.com/hallo/ ) by default, and Aloha Editor ( http://aloha-editor.org/ ) with bundled integration.

Create ( http://createjs.org/ ) is no where near the quality of Mercury Editor, ( http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/ ) me thinks.

Create is the CMS UI shell around a WYSIWYG editor (well, potentially around other widgets you need like datepickers and choosers as well). We could use Mercury quite easily as another editor option.

Create's editor options are provided as jQuery UI wrapper widgets, for example: https://github.com/bergie/create/blob/master/src/editingWidg...

BTW, check out http://blog.liip.ch/archive/2012/03/20/cmf-editor-overview-s... and http://iks.alkacon.com/en/ if you want to see a bit more comprehensive Create UI setups.

Re: Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

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Post by antinitro »

bergie wrote: post #15
hsmyers wrote: post #8

Given what I can do in notepad, this doesn't quite do it for me. Yes, notepad is not what-you-see-is-what-you-get, but it doesn't take that much to create a HTML repel and that followed by alt-tab allows me pretty much every thing I want. I am uncomfortable with 'some one else's idea of a good time' when it comes to feature selection---no ? Etc. Good idea in general, just not for me, not yet.

For a lot of users, WYSIWYG is good, especially if it really integrates with the web page you're trying to edit (not a non-styled IFRAME like in the traditional CMS editors). I also usually write in Markdown, but the latest breed of editors is starting to be good enough that I may be able to swap. And as for , that is usually configurable in the editor setup. Disclaimer: I'm an author of one the new editors, Hallo.

Off topic but I'm currently looking for a font size plugin for hallo, do you happen to know if one exists? (or anything using a select box).

Re: Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

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Post by bergie »

antinitro wrote: post #23
bergie wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a lot of users, WYSIWYG is good, especially if it really integrates with the web page you're trying to edit (not a non-styled IFRAME like in the traditional CMS editors). I also usually write in Markdown, but the latest breed of editors is starting to be good enough that I may be able to swap. And as for , that is usually configurable in the editor setup. Disclaimer: I'm an author of one the new editors, Hallo.

Off topic but I'm currently looking for a font size plugin for hallo, do you happen to know if one exists? (or anything using a select box).

I don't think anybody has written that plugin yet. Could you post a ticket? I'm spending some days on Hallo and Create next week, and so could possibly write one.

Re: Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

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Post by samwillis »

It looks like the beginning of a very nice project!

I had a similar itch to scratch a few weeks ago when I wanted a nice simple editor for a project and modified the pagedown editor (the markdown editor from stackoverflow) to use bootstrap. Its here: https://github.com/samwillis/pagedown-bootstrap

You can see a demo here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2690345/pagedown-bootstrap-demo/demo...

Re: Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

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Post by huhtenberg »

jfhollingworth wrote: post #3
mhd wrote: post #2

Totally broken for me. Firefox has weird selection behavior (trying to italicize one word often catches the previous one, next one, whole sentence - or works normal), with Chrome the buttons don't work at all and with Camino (older Gecko engine), I can't even place the cursor.

can you try http://tifftiff.de/wysihtml5/examples/advanced.html and seeing if you see the same issues?

FWIW I am too on Firefox and I am not seeing any weird behavior. (Beautifully done, by the way. Great job.)

Re: Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

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Post by jfhollingworth »

stef25 wrote: post #25

I currently use fckeditor for all client projects and I really want an alternative, so this looks perfect. I know it's probably not on top of your features list but inserting images would be a great add-on, most of my clients need it.

Inserting images and links is next on the list. https://github.com/xing/wysihtml5 supports them all - I just need to add it to the UI

Re: Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

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Post by justincormack »

bergie wrote: post #11

Looks promising! Might be an interesting additional editor candidate in Create ( http://createjs.org/ ). Though, Create is MIT and the wysihtml5 library used by this is GPL, so the licenses are not compatible. Currently we use Hallo ( http://bergie.github.com/hallo/ ) by default, and Aloha Editor ( http://aloha-editor.org/ ) with bundled integration.

Aloha is AGPL though, it seems they do license exceptions for BSD projects, is that what you have?

Re: Bootstrap-wysihtml5: a simple, beautiful wysiwyg editor

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Post by jfhollingworth »

samwillis wrote: post #26

It looks like the beginning of a very nice project! I had a similar itch to scratch a few weeks ago when I wanted a nice simple editor for a project and modified the pagedown editor (the markdown editor from stackoverflow) to use bootstrap. Its here: https://github.com/samwillis/pagedown-bootstrap You can see a demo here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2690345/pagedown-bootstrap-demo/demo...

awesome! I'd personally much prefer to use markdown for my projects but unfortunately I'm not targeting developers :/
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