Google Closure
Today Google announced general availability of it's set of javascript tools called Closure. The set includes a Javascript compiler, library and template engine. In the javascript library they include an api for using their text editor. This is the same text editor used in many of Google's web applications like Google Docs, Google Wave, and Gmail... apparently.
Is anybody else interested in seeing if this can be a good solution to the text editor troubles of Drupal?
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Looks interesting. The
Looks interesting.
The editor, however, appears to do everything old school, even using multiple font tags.
http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog/demos/edito...
Bad.
yeah... I also wondered about the ugliness of the editor when using GoogleDocs already.
Not sure why they created their own, but its behavior, usability, and output looks and feels like a 2001 version of an arbitrary editor to me.
And that's actually the primary reason for me to not use GoogleDocs. It's plain unusable as soon as you start to do longer/more advanced documents.
A colleague of mine sent me
A colleague of mine sent me this link about Google Closure, I figured I'd share it with you: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/11/12/google-closure-how-not-to-writ...
Thanks for linking that
Thanks for linking that article. Besides the critique itself one can learn from the examples given there.
Yes, but...
I saw this article. It is very interesting indeed.
But IMO no editor is ideal and they all have some caveats. Google editor does not seem so bad compared to the others. And even if the javascript is not very well optimized, it seems solid and clean. TinyMCE code feels more ugly to me. It feels "2001" ? But what editor does not ? The UI is cleaner than all editors I've seen, even CKEditor.