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Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by grrrrbytes »

I notice that still a lot of editors use inline css for their image-styling (I assume, since the editor should correctly preview the way images are lined up). But this obviously creates problems when you decide to style such images a bit differently (adding some padding, whatever) without modifying tons of generated content. A centralized css declaration would make this much easier.

Wouldn't there be a possibility to put these styles in an external stylesheet? As the editor itself makes use of external css for it's own styling, adding a new stylesheet for the elements it creates would not be very difficult, right?

I'm sure this is conscious practice that is done with a purpose in mind. I'm only unaware of its explanation.

Also: I noticed that Redactor uses italic-tags () to style text as italic. Isn't this bad practice in terms of semantics?

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by VMG »

grayrest wrote: post #25

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…

> and keeps the markup clean via regexp cleanup

wait what?

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by esusatyo »

grayrest wrote: post #27
deveshz wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey can you share the link of the RTE that you wrote. Interested to see that.

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

This is somewhat unrelated, but how did you change the scroll thumb colour in OS X ML in that site? All other pages have gray scroll thumb.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by jplarson »

bizodo wrote: post #55

Is there a moo tools equivalent of this?!

That was my first thought as well. For better or worse, I love MooTools and vastly prefer it to jQuery. It's the occasional time like this whene I have admit there's a cost to picking & sticking with the way less popular framework.

MooEditable is pretty good, but I'd plunk down the cash to swap this one in in a heartbeat.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by brandoncapecci »

deliminator wrote: post #52
latchkey wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Having a slightly larger size is a non-issue for people who aren't willing to spend at least the 100 dollars...

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by sim0n »

esusatyo wrote: post #64
grayrest wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This is somewhat unrelated, but how did you change the scroll thumb colour in OS X ML in that site? All other pages have gray scroll thumb.

When the background-color of the is dark Chrome/Safari use a lighter thumb colour (Squarespace has a background colour of #181818).

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by jijji »

TinyMCE, CKEditor, CuteEditor, etc. There are over 60 public popular WYSIWYG web editors, about half of them are mature and free. Why would someone want to move to this, when it is fairly new and also not free?
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