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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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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 lig…

Thank you for the high praise. We definitely view the API as our main differentiator vs other editors. Hope you will not be disappointed!

Oh is this the one from the Guardian? Great to see a release, I've been meaning to have a proper look since the announcement.

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

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post #11
post #6

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 lig…

Thank you for the high praise. We definitely view the API as our main differentiator vs other editors. Hope you will not be disappointed!

Oh is this the one from the Guardian? Great to see a release, I've been meaning to have a proper look since the announcement.

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

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post #11
post #6

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 lig…

Thank you for the high praise. We definitely view the API as our main differentiator vs other editors. Hope you will not be disappointed!

Oh is this the one from the Guardian? Great to see a release, I've been meaning to have a proper look since the announcement.

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

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Looks promising! Looking through the toolbar customization, I couldn't tell how easy it would be to add a toolbar element that isn't one of the existing behaviors -- for example, a toolbar element to bring up an emoticon pallette. Is that something that's currently supported?

It's intended to be simple though we can definitely use some better documentation in this area. All you need to do is pass in a config. You can take a look at some configs in src/format.coffee. Most are just a few lines (though we need to document what they mean). For example link is just { tag: 'A', attribute: 'href' }. Realistically though will probably end up adding all of the common formats leaving just custom on…

Seems straightforward, thanks for the reply!
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