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Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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http://squarespace.com I was messing with it last week and looks like I broke list handling.

you own that company or work there? I need a job! I see you're hiring front-end developers... I think I'll apply tonight

I work there. It's a great place to work.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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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.

Download size is one big factor for me. http://cdn.aloha-editor.org/latest/lib/aloha.js 1.1MB! http://imperavi.com/js/redactor/redactor.js 168KB (odd, it is an encrypted version) The actual minified 8.1.0 version that you get after giving them a fake email address is 41KB.

The aloha core is 239KB (minified but not gzipped). Plugins can be anywhere from 5KB to 50KB. The version on the CDN includes about 30 plugins.

I expect the size would be around 300KB if only the basic plugins are included.

Still, it's a lot bigger than redactor - point taken.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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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.

Primary reason was licensing. This was a year ago.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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you own that company or work there? I need a job! I see you're hiring front-end developers... I think I'll apply tonight

I work there. It's a great place to work.

I live in southern california though... I wonder if they help out with relocation? I'll shoot my resume over.. I dig the site it looks fresh and a good service..

What do you guys use on the backend?

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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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.

Primary reason was licensing. This was a year ago.

The License was changed recently to GPLv2.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Then there is also my Hallo Editor, which is open source and uses contentEditable http://hallojs.org/ If you're using Create.js for making your stuff editable, it has editor abstraction that can drive Aloha, Hallo, and Redactor based on your configuration

Nice one!

Oh, and while not enabled by default, Hallo has quite nice image handling. Some screencasts in http://blog.iks-project.eu/semantic-enhanced-cmf-editor-now-...

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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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?

Doesn't normalize enter to BR and I haven't managed to break it. WYSIHTML5 works for normal use cases and produces nice markup but if you mess around with multiple overlapping inline elements or the two lists and indent/dedent enough you'll wind up with very bizarre markup.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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I work there. It's a great place to work.

I live in southern california though... I wonder if they help out with relocation? I'll shoot my resume over.. I dig the site it looks fresh and a good service.. What do you guys use on the backend?

SS6 is java (no framework), rabbitmq, mongo, memcached with node providing services like less compilation.
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