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Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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I love Redactor. I use it for an internal project and its easily the best compared to TinyMCE and others. Its clean, produces clean markup (you don't get random empty HTML tags like ..text) with no inline-styles.

I wrote a Python library to take its output and shove it in a word document: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/HtmlToWord/

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

#33

If you're looking for a Rich Text Editor, this is the only one I will recommend. I wrote a proprietary RTE last year and continue to maintain it because nothing available both worked and produced clean markup. Redactor came out this spring and is the only generally available RTE that does this. If you insist on OSS, WYSIHTML5 is the best available. For those that care, Redactor uses the designMode technique, leans on…

I'm curious why you decided not to use Aloha Editor, since it is also able to produce clean markup. Disclosure: I'm one of the Aloha Editor developers.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Looks very nice. A few things I can't seem to see how to do (that I can do with TinyMCE): 1. Define some CSS classes that I want to be available to the user (I'd never give colour and font controls to my users unless I wanted my lovely site design to end up full of bright-pink 42pt comic-sans) 2. Supply a list of already-uploaded images 3. Supply a list of internal links to the 'add link' dialog 4. Resize handles for…

#2: Looks like the Insert Image dialog has a list of images that have already been uploaded.

#4: There are no handles, but in Chrome 22 on a Mac at least I can drag anywhere in the image to resize.

The CSS classes/styles are the reason I'll probably stick with CKEditor for now. As cumbersome as CKEditor is overall, I can't lose the ability to add styles that my non-technical clients can choose from when editing their websites.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

TinyMCE have something like this, but yeah, it should be a easy-access function. The only downer for me : it uses JQuery, which I often avoid in admin pages.

Why?

Simply because my admin pages don't use a lot of JavaScript. Some Ajax, some image resizing... straightforward stuff, no need of a library.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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The Amazon S3 support seems to suggest that the authors believe it is acceptable to store your AWS key ID and "secret" key in your client-side JavaScript code. Am I missing something here?

Yes you are absolutely correct. http://imperavi.com/redactor/examples/s3/

The AWS secret is nowhere in that code. Just the ID, which is not privileged.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

#37

Looks super slick, but worth noting there are open source alternatives. For example: http://jhollingworth.github.com/bootstrap-wysihtml5/ This a bootstrap wrapper around the wysihtml5 project: https://github.com/xing/wysihtml5

I really like wysihtml5. Can someone do a bit of comparison and let us know if redactor is worth the money.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

#38

If you're looking for a Rich Text Editor, this is the only one I will recommend. I wrote a proprietary RTE last year and continue to maintain it because nothing available both worked and produced clean markup. Redactor came out this spring and is the only generally available RTE that does this. If you insist on OSS, WYSIHTML5 is the best available. For those that care, Redactor uses the designMode technique, leans on…

How is this any better than WYSIHTML5?

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

#39

If you're looking for a Rich Text Editor, this is the only one I will recommend. I wrote a proprietary RTE last year and continue to maintain it because nothing available both worked and produced clean markup. Redactor came out this spring and is the only generally available RTE that does this. If you insist on OSS, WYSIHTML5 is the best available. For those that care, Redactor uses the designMode technique, leans on…

How is this any better than WYSIHTML5?

I think one of the biggest things I see is the ability to handle uploads/handling of images inline of your content. You still have to provide the server side implementation (see http://paltman.com/2012/08/15/how-to-setup-upload-handler-fo...) but having the ability to browse previously uploaded photos, as well as upload new ones, and have them appear inline with your content with resize handles, is pretty nice.
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