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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 latchkey »

dazbradbury wrote: post #20

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'm currently using both of these and they are both a bit of a mess. Don't waste your time with either of them unless you want to spend a ton of time fixing them or you just have really basic requirements.

wysihtml5 just doesn't work well, is missing a ton of features and the developer isn't really spending much time fixing issues with it. 71 open issues and 11 pull requests isn't a good sign imho.

For bootstrap-wysihtml5, I had to override quite a bit of the insert link functionality to get it to do some basic stuff with regards to handling the modal, focus and enabling/disabling buttons if things change. https://gist.github.com/3889641

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by oceansize »

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.

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

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by deveshz »

bergie wrote: post #40

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!

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by oceansize »

jsilence wrote: post #24
deveshz wrote: post #14

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Yeah, but now almost every startup is using that.

How is that a bad thing? I for one welcome our new framework overlords. Meaning: Maybe we can have a rest from chasing after the 'technology of the week(tm)' and simply get things done without having to dig through yet another framework.

'technology of the week' ^^ this, it seems to never end...

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by jeremyjh »

deliminator wrote: post #29
dazbradbury wrote: post #20

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

Also Aloha Editor (GPLv2) http://aloha-editor.org/

Yeah but that has a GPL license. wsyihtml5 is MIT so would be compatible with more open source licenses and usable for commercial software.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by eob »

deliminator wrote: post #33
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…

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.

Hi deliminator! The Aloha Editor is great. I was poking around in your source the other day and noticed that it doesn't seem like it's received much active development for the past few months. Is it at a stage where you expect future changes to just be bug fixes, or is there still active development planned?

Just curious. Thanks for providing a great tool to the community!

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by latchkey »

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…

I really like Redactor and am considering switching to it from wysihtml5, but the one thing that has been holding me back is the design of the modals for things like editing links. I really wish they were more easily customizable because they look nothing like the design of my site. For example, I put the cancel button on the left and the ok button on the right and I use bootstrap to style it all. Redactor uses a link for cancel and switches the button order. I know this is a small complaint, but keeping consistent design is good design.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by mark_up »

jeremyjh wrote: post #45
deliminator wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also Aloha Editor (GPLv2) http://aloha-editor.org/

Yeah but that has a GPL license. wsyihtml5 is MIT so would be compatible with more open source licenses and usable for commercial software.

The GPL license allows commercial software.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by deliminator »

eob wrote: post #46
deliminator wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hi deliminator! The Aloha Editor is great. I was poking around in your source the other day and noticed that it doesn't seem like it's received much active development for the past few months. Is it at a stage where you expect future changes to just be bug fixes, or is there still active development planned? Just curious. Thanks for providing a great tool to the community!

The latest big development was porting the UI from ExtJs to jQuery UI. This had some benefits concerning licensing and code size.

Drupal is interested in integrating Aloha, and we are currently discussing several improvements that would be necessary for them. Have a look at the issue tracker. I think the UI À la carte and accessibility will be the next big user-visible developments.

Re: Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery

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Post by latchkey »

deliminator wrote: post #33
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…

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.

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