WYSIWYG - On every platform - Suggestion

[StudioZ]

Just a suggestion...

What about making possible the option to choose the WYSIWYG editor, directly on the admin side (included in the user/admin profile), rather than having to edit the option in the conf.inc.php file....?

This way, one could use Spaw on WIN and HTMLArea on MAC.
In conclusion my clients could use Spaw on their WIN desktop, and I could use HTMLArea on my MAC, instead of loosing the WYSIWYG editor functions when I give priority to my clients

This would be the best of both worlds, while waiting for Spaw to be available on Mac (If this ever happens...? Hopefully...)

Regards,

[Peekay]

This would be a nice option.

The WYSIWYG editors are giving me a headache at the moment. At the time of writing, HTMLArea works on the PC (using Win 98, XP) in both IE and Firefox browsers. It also works on the Mac (using OSX) in Firefox. This would make it the only cross-platform WYSIWYG editor... but, sadly there is a discrepancy.

If you use HTMLArea in IE on the PC, pressing the return key creates a

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<p>

However, using it in Firefox, on both PC and Mac, pressing return creates a

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<br>

This makes it difficult to include CSS in PHPWCMS that will format articles consistently. It becomes a significant issue when, for example, someone edits their site using a PC at work, but uses a Mac at home. I checked the developer's website and numerous users have raised the issue in their forum, but I couldn't find a fix.

Using SPAW in IE on the PC, pressing return also creates a

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<p>

(which I believe is semantically correct). I hope that if SPAW does become available on the Mac, the developers will ensure that it maintains this behaviour cross-platform.

[StudioZ]

To exit this <p> problem I also encountered, I made sure that the <p> tag would not be present and called in my CSS, and thus would by default inherit any style where it is located in a page.

I don't have to bother about these anymore now...

Does that makes sense ?

[frold]

The new FCKeditor look very promising!! Also the new extension project:

http://mcpuk.net/fbxp/

Overview
This project aims to extend the file browser section
of the new FCKEditor v2 (currently beta 2).

The extensions will all be implemented maintaining the
authors view of providing a generic XML interface to
support the file browsers functionality, so that server-
side connectors may be developed for different server side
platforms.

Planned Extensions
Implement thumbnail images for files and folders
Delete & Rename functionality for files and folders
Simple image editing functionality
Implement progress bar for uploads

Progress
Thumbnail support implemented
Delete & Renaming of folders implemented
Deleting of files implemented
Progress bar implemented

[StudioZ]

The new FCKeditor look very promising!! Also the new extension project:

http://mcpuk.net/fbxp/

We'll follow this up
Interesting

Cheers,