Posted by davidhernandez on April 20, 2011 at 2:25am
What is your preferred editor? Since I started using Drupal I've been using FCKEditor and now CKEditor. I tested out lots of editors in the beginning but settled on this one. I also use CKFinder to handle file management. I prefer using it over IMCE, because I seem to have greater control.
Do you have reasons for your preferred editor? Any favorite toolbar configurations?
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CKEditor
I've used both FCKEditor, CKEditor, and TinyMCE. CKEditor is the best in my opinion. As for configuration I'm leaning towards putting less buttons on the next site we make, just the basics users need for content creation (think Gmail toolbar.). I think including the full gambit of buttons is overwhelming to the average user and no one uses all of those. Plus, as you have witnessed, they are just going to paste from Word anyway :)
How many potential content editors do you have for your site? (People who regularly create and edit nodes) I have at least 20 but closer to 5 that post regularly.
http://www.webbfx.net/
I have a list of a dozen or
I have a list of a dozen or so potential editors, but somewhere closer to 5 that regularly edit. I would not classify any of the editors as being particularly technical. I've tried to eliminate as many buttons as possible, especially the ones for changing font and colors.
Has anyone migrated a site from one that used a WYSIWYG to anything else, and had a problem because of the code the WYSIWYG inserts. It is something I always worry about. For example, CKEditor uses a class for centering text, so if the CSS is not included you have problems. None of the things it does has bitten me, so far, but I worry about the future. Maybe I'm just paranoid?
We've used a few editors, but
We've used a few editors, but I recommend this one. http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
We didn't 'transfer' the site but we have changed the editor 3 times in the same site and this one works the best for our needs.
TinyMCE has been reliable for
TinyMCE has been reliable for us, but we've not asked it to do a lot. I've dodged the "paste from Word" horrors by the fact that I don't have to account for far-flung people doing content entry. I and an assistant are both the Drupal support and the content entry people, but the content is increasingly gated through marketing before we see it. We have many small, short-term projects in a chaotic environment, so it makes sense for us to strictly partition people working on products (credit and non-credit courses, mostly) from people publishing marketing info on them.
We use TinyMCE quite long
We use TinyMCE quite long time
Does anyone know of an HTML
Does anyone know of an HTML filter module that will highlight your HTML/CSS tags? I looked online and there are some syntax highlighters for output but not for when you are actually editing the source code.
I stopped using our WYSIWYG editor a while back and just go for the source directly. Highlighting the markup would help and save me a trip copying and pasting into my desktop code editor.
http://www.webbfx.net/
Hmm. Could explain what
Hmm. Could explain what exactly you want it to do? Are you saying that you want no WYSIWYG at all, but have something syntax highlight in the node body input box? I'm assuming there is lots of HTML, so how would you want the highlighting to work?
I found these
I found these two.
http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg_codemirror
http://drupal.org/project/colorer
Thanks David, Colorer module
Thanks David, Colorer module is exactly what I need! Yes, I can totally do without a WYSIWYG at all and just needed a way to highlight syntax. I searched a while but kept finding threads where people were talking about highlighting Output not the actual source.
http://www.webbfx.net/