Rich Text Editor overhaul (GSOC 2010)

[arjunjain]

Hi
My name is Arjun Jain .I am a computer engineering student from India .I want to discuss more about the idea of rich text editor overhaul.
recently i have design the lug website of my college when i design the admin the part i want to use text editor which provide me lot of featured
some one suggest me to use TinyMCE when i integrate it with module then page take long time to load then i replace  TinyMCE to CKeditor then i was surprised i take 30-40 % less time as compared to TinyMCE.
the main aim of all these conversation because i want to be sure that in this project i am only replacing the existing text editor with new fully featured text editor (CKeditor) . Is that right.
 Currently dreamwidth does not support to store any media . the current version text editor only show video link on the post and does not provide functionality  of upload from system to server . i want to know can i remove the same functionality because dreamwidth not supported ,to newer version of text editor or provide the some method to activate this functionality in future if media hosting project of dreamwidth became successfull .
  I would appreciate to discuss and listen any idea from all of you

thanks

Comments

[azurelunatic]

I believe Dreamwidth currently uses a modified version of a predecessor of CKEditor, FCKEditor.

[arjunjain]

but current text editor does not provide much functionality such as limited font size change no flash content show on post

[azurelunatic]

I think updating it would be a good idea.

I believe including flash content in entries is a deliberate restriction on the part of the site owners, so that would be something to be discussed with them.

The current font size options seem to be the relative font size settings. I am a user, not a designer, but I would strongly resist the introduction of absolute font sizes to the RTE for accessibility reasons.

I don't know how much familiarity you have with Dreamwidth's general use, so please forgive me if I cover topics you already know. User's posts are shown not just on their journal, where it does not always matter how their post came to have its current style attributes, but also on the reading page. On the reading page, the post takes on a number of the style attributes of the reader, rather than the writer. The reader's font size needs may be very different than the writer's, and it is a grave annoyance to the reader if some dear friend of theirs has explicitly set the font size of their entry to 8pt when the rest of their page is showing up in 32pt and larger.

[havocthecat]

I believe including flash content in entries is a deliberate restriction on the part of the site owners, so that would be something to be discussed with them.

And thank goodness for that! Browsing at work + flash content = OMGBAD. For some of us. :)


(This isn't saying I have vast knowledge of computer systems. Just me saying that I avoid anything with flash at work so I don't get in trouble.)

[foxfirefey]

You are correct! I once looked in to what it would take to upgrade us to CKEditor, but CKEditor's documentation was nowhere near complete enough to tempt inexperienced me into an attempt.

[arjunjain]

:) i want to add some more detail . we can provide two mode of edition simple edition in user edit some basic details and advance edit which provide the complete edit

[foxfirefey]

Another thing I'm interested in is making it easy to style the RTE--or, at the very least, to have two different styles of it, one dark-on-light and another light-on-dark. That was the reason that I looked into updating to CKEditor; a lot of people use our light-on-dark site scheme to ease eyestrain, and there have been complaints about the RTE still being dark-on-light even in that site scheme.

[azurelunatic]

Ooo, that would be very nice.

[jadelennox]

We'd need to make sure CKeditor is fully accessible. I've had real problems with it in the past, and the accessibility statement on their website isn't accessible. We'd want to get an instance up and have the volunteers on the accessibility community play with it.