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Just thought I'd mention that Dojo (http://dojotoolkit.org/docs/rich_text.html) has a very, very fast WYSIWYG editor that can perform all standard operations (image insertion, hyperlink, etc.).

i cant reach that link or the domain at all - could my crazy australian pipe to the rest of the world.  wouldnt mind having a look though, i find the current editors really quite slow to load.

If you are interested in Dojo, I interviewed him for the FOSDEM :

http://www.fosdem.org/2006/index/interv ... ws_russell

from the site:

Provide WYSIWYG, not source editing
Users like WYSIWYG because they care about how something looks and not the quality of HTML produced. The Dojo Editor provides What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) and not What You See Has A Semantic Meaning Which May Or May Not Be What You Get (WYSHASMWMOMNBWYG). Therefore, filtering and reworking HTML to meet markup cleanliness is done via hooks at save time, not invasive and slow DOM manipulation at runtime.

This makes me fear that the editor delivers tagsoup. Maybe you can refine it a bit afterwards like they say, but I expect the output from a proces, that has garbage as input, to be still garbage.  I agree that the user should see in the editor something that resembles how it looks in the page (jay for in-page editing!) but you don't want all the effort spent in designing your layout and typography be nullified because some user found a interesting looking button on the editor that eg. fixed the fontsize to 9pts.

Cool.  Maybe someone could make a module.

Dojo does not create tagsoup which is one of the reasons one should really take Dojo into consideration when it comes to accessibility and / or webstandards. Furthermore you can undo / redo actions. Not to forget ease of use ...

If you would like to test it, simply go here or get more information here.

Regards,
Nils

Jack Bauer wrote: Cool.  Maybe someone could make a module.

Done: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/dojoeditor/
I'll hopefully do an initial release today.
Update: Because of a Javascript conflict with prototype when using Internet Explorer, I plan to make DojoEditor a CMSMS 2.0 module only and try to replace protype with Dojo in CMSMS 2.0 to resolve the conflict.

I installed it and it doesn't work with FF mac X 1.5.10. I don't know if I did anything wrong.

carasmo wrote: I installed it and it doesn't work with FF mac X 1.5.10. I don't know if I did anything wrong.

Strange. It works here in FF on Linux and Windows. I don't have a Mac to test with.

Usually things that work in Linux work on OSX, oh well. I'll play around with it later.

I think FCK editor will do the trick for now.

Thanks!!!!