Re: [xwiki-dev] FCKEditor

Hi, The editor Sascha has been talking about is a replacement for HTMLArea. It is based on TinyMCE and includes Wiki Syntax conversion. The use of HTMLArea or any other WYSIWYG editor without conversion of syntax make it unusable for wikis because of the incompatibility with other features of XWiki (like scripting or good versioning) and the impossibility to revert back to the simple Wiki editor. It was chosen to have a converting editor which was based on TinyMCE because TinyMCE includes features to have compatible HTML in different browsers. This has been developed during a Google Summer of Code project. The link and attachment features of the editor have been connected to the attachment feature of XWiki and it is now possible to include an image in the page in a single wizard. This method of converting also implies that not all features of WYSIWYG editor are possible to implement. Anyway for usability of wikis it is currently not a good idea to add to many presentation features in the wiki.. The editing should stay quite simple with basic presentation features. The power of the wiki is in the content and the links between the different content, not in the presentation. Still improvements are needed to the editor, and in particular support for tables. Other interesting things can be done, like including the spell checker. Ludovic Youcef BEY a écrit : -- Ludovic Dubost XPertNet: http://www.xpertnet.fr/ Blog: http://www.ludovic.org/blog/ XWiki: http://www.xwiki.com Skype: ldubost AIM: nvludo Yahoo: ludovic