Which editor (if any) do you use for your Drupal site(s)

Good idea, Sven!
However, WYMeditor is missing in the list.

Daniel F. Kudwien
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I'd like to use Xstandard, which I realise isn't a popular choice due to being a commercial product and pluggin, but I've found it preferable for working in a consistent way and for good (accessible) output.

Unfortunately all the JavaScript editors suffer from having to use the browser's functionality - which is very poor.

Someone has already created a module for integrating Xstandard, so I'm curious as to why it wasn't included in this poll? Is it not used at all?

I'm trying to decide upon which editor to use for my web site and luckily stumbled across this group and then this poll, which both appear to be VERY helpful. I really appreciate Sven having put the poll together.

Not that the above poll is scientific, but why might it be that TinyMCE has received 35 votes while FCKeditor has only received 7 votes thus far?

Assuming that there's a cross-section of users answering the poll and that it's not biased in favor of TinyMCE, is it that TinyMCE has some features and/or a UI that are/is better than FCKeditor? Or could it simply be that more TinyMCE users answered the poll? 35 to 7 is a significant difference in favor of TinyMCE.

One of my concerns with editors is "valid HTML", and I've asked Dan about this to see what he says based upon his editor comparison. He lists TinyMCE as having failed "valid HTML" and that it "fails" coder.module test, while FCKeditor only "fails" coder.module test. Your feedback would be equally appreciated.

And if anyone ever decides to conduct another poll, Comparision of Drupal 5 WYSIYG Editors might be a great place to obtain a list of editors.

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as designer, i use Dreamweaver... but i just use the Code panel more and more... LOL
maybe i should switch to a "real" editor...

On the one hand, it offers them too many choices, so they try to make their text different colors, etc. I need to limit them to fewer classes, which I know I can set TinyMCE to do, but I haven't had time to configure it that completely yet.

But on the other hand, I've never been able to get the preview to really look like the final post. Font sizes, in particular, change radically between preview and post, which drives my users crazy. Some of it is due to bad class conflicts from pasting content in from MS Word (shudder), but not all.

So I'm considering switching to WYMEditor... I just need to determine if I can anticipate enough of what my users want to be able to do, and get them to stay within a smaller number of classes.

WYMeditor 0.5.x is compatible with safari !

View the changelog : http://trac.wymeditor.org/trac/wiki/0.5/Changelog

Some people who does not use wysiwyg editor, are using other tools such as the markdown filter used here at groups.drupal.org or the Texy filter module which does something of the same job.

I think this is relevant to what this poll can tell us (the practical and ongoing value of this poll), so I think that "Input filter" should be an option in the poll here. Very interesting to see how many does in fact use a filter instead of a WYSIWYG editor.

It is mostly possible, but often not without some training or explanation to normal non-tech users, to combine filters with editors.

This leads me to mention a currently uncovered need which I think deserves attention:

One major problem with combining filters and editors is that very few editors are made so that combination becomes practical.

• It becomes messy if switching back and forth between code view and wysiwyg mode, the editor often "destroys" (intervenes) with the text typed in code view and often completely revamps it with no undo function. I think there should be a way to use for example [some_pseudo_tag] to surround content we do not want the editor to touch.
• switching to code view often turns the editor off, so that we cannot insert images. This forces us to re-enable it each time we need to insert something, and then our manually typed text is instantly revamped... (The OpenWysiwyg editor does not do that, btw.)
• there should be a very flexible, but not enforced, way to specify where the editor should be enabled by default, and where not, and also where it should not be possible to use it, and where it should be enforced... These functions are currently scattered around the various editors, and not one of them gives complete flexibility. With such a complex and flexible tool as a CMS, this is actually needed.

I would encourage people to check out OpenWYSIWYG editor, which I find very interesting based on the following:

• small module, no external dependencies
• clean interface with file/image upload and insert feature including user folders
• the editor interface does not disappear when I switch to "code view", so that I can type ahead for example using Texy markup without the editor interfering with the formatting of my text, while at the same time have convenient access to uploading and/or inserting photos etc. into the page I am editing.)

Module page: http://drupal.org/project/openwysiwyg

Ref. Markdown filter or Texy filter: for those who does not know what they do:
Markdown filter help page - which is used here at groups.drupal.org :
http://groups.drupal.org/filter/tips

Markdown input filter module: http://drupal.org/project/markdown
Texy input filter module: http://drupal.org/project/texy

Btw, ref. the nice WYSIWYG editor comparison table in the handbook:
"Comparison of Drupal WYSIWYG Editors"
http://drupal.org/node/208456

Several of the modules needs to be tested for Valid HTML.

Please add two more options to this poll:

• Input filters
• OpenWYSIWYG editor

I like the idea of minimising the markup held in the database, and like using Textile (similar to Markdown). I think my ideal editor would be a Javascript WYSIWYG-style thing that generates minimal markup such as Textile or Markdown code, rather than HTML.

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