[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] New GWT-based WYSIWYG editor

Hi, I'd like us all to welcome Marius Dumitru Florea who has joined the XWiki dev community to work on a new GWT-based WYSIWYG editor. Marius is very new to the XWiki team so I'd like all of us to support him for this very important work. This is really just the start of this project so we need everyone's help in designing it and for providing feedbacks and ideas. I've started a page on it there: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Idea/NewWysiwygEditorBasedOnGwt I'll we working with Marius on this for the time being and Jean- Vincent will probably help us in the future too. And anyone willing to help is most welcome. As I've mentioned on that page we have 3 main issues with the current WYSIWYG editor so it's time to start fixing them. The current Tiny- MCE based editor as the following deficiencies: * Slow * Complex code using complex regexs. This leads to a fragility that makes it break somewhere whenever someone adds a modification to it. * Lots of bug reports consistently for the past year, showing a non- optimal design I'll kick-start the discussion with some open questions I've listed on that page: * Is there a GWT editor component we can/should reuse? * Check WikiModel capabilities for conversions in both directions and especially from HTML to wiki syntax. * How to integrate WikiModel in the Rendering layer of XWiki? * Is there any code to be salvaged from the work done by Christian and Nam in that branch: svn+ssh://svn.forge.objectweb.org/svnroot/ xwiki/xwiki-platform/core/branches/XWIKI_WYSIWYG_NEWARCHI If anyone has any insight on these questions, please speak up! :) Thanks everyone, -Vincent