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Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API

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Re: Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API

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Post by leeoniya »

this looks cool and super easy to add bidirectional HTML markdown support similar to the demo i did for redactor-js here: http://leeoniya.github.io/redactor-js/

using https://github.com/leeoniya/reMarked.js and https://github.com/chjj/marked

may just have to do this after work today if no one gets to it first.

Re: Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API

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Post by tesin »

Your 'try me out' section is cut in half, with a need to scroll down, on a large laptop screen.

Having that footer be a fixed overlay may be fine on giant desktop monitor, but the website is pretty terrible on a smaller one.

edit: I stand corrected. It stays awful no matter what the screen size...

Re: Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API

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Post by rattray »

As someone who had tried to implement a modern rich text editor with custom plugins, this seems like a terrific solution to a real problem. I had used a fairly nice wrapper around contenteditable[0], but this seems like a much more featureful, easily extensible option. The other options (CKEditor seemed most popular) are heavyweight, complex, poorly documented solutions that don't seem amenable to easily creating lightweight plugins, modules, etc.

I have high hopes for what these guys produce.

EDIT: Just wanted to add that looking through the API docs, it seems to solve exactly the problems I had. Would have made a measurable difference to my business to have had this, if it does what it says it does.

[0] http://mindmup.github.io/bootstrap-wysiwyg/

Re: Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API

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Post by byronm »

darkstar999 wrote: post #5

This looks much better than its counterparts so far! I couldn't figure out how to remove a URL from a selection of text. It would be awesome to see an example of how to let the user upload an image.

> I couldn't figure out how to remove a URL from a selection of text.

If you highlight the text, and click the link hyperlink icon in the toolbar, the URL will be removed. The link overlay UI doesn't support that though; we'll add a "remove" action in addition to "change".

Re: Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API

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Post by jhchen »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #3

Doesn't work great on Firefox for Android, despite claims to the contrary. It looks great for desktop, though.

Quill developer here. I'll look into the issue for Firefox for Android. It appears to be doing something different than its desktop counterpart. Feel free to submit an issue on Github for tracking though. It will be tough to officially support Firefox on Android though as we use Sauce for automation and it does not appear to be supported there.
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