13 Jun
2008
13 Jun
'08
3:35 p.m.
On Jun 13, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Vincent Massol wrote:
Yes I know we could do this and I even agree completely in theory...
but... creating a community and making a generic product is a *LOT* of
work and we don't have half of the required manpower to do that. It's
already difficult enough to do it for XWiki and we don't want to take
away people from the XWiki so that they spend all their time on
fostering a GWT WYSIWYG editor community IMO.
Now IF someone approaches us and that person want to separate our
WYSIWYG editor and make it an external project then yes that'd be
great and the best and we could support that person. But supporting
and doing it are a very different things.
-Vincent
I'm really surprised there's no good
already existing WYSIWYG editor
based on GWT. It's a pity since I'm pretty sure it'll exist
relatively
soon and we'll already have done all our work... Since it's not
XWiki's job to write WYSIWYG editors it's a pity we have to write it.
If we could have focused on just choosing what controls we wanted +
the html <-> wiki conversions that would have been better.
Anyway that's probably the cost of being early adopters... I hope our
editor will really rock thanks to that and keep us ahead of the
competition :) (although when a real cool GWT editor is created the
competition will be able to leapfrog us).
Well, after we have the first working version, we can release it as
a generic editor, so we can be
that really cool GWT editor. If it's outside, we won't be able to
control it (as in "strongly
request the features we need"). If we manage to make it generic
enough to attract a community, we
can emphasize the features we need, and let others make it glittery
and shiny, so we'll have the
best editor custom made for XWiki. So Marius, keep in mind that any XWiki specific
feature must not be
hard wired in the editor.