Posted by wmostrey on December 7, 2007 at 7:36pm
Yes
80% (33 votes)
No
15% (6 votes)
Maybe (please specify in a comment)
5% (2 votes)
Total votes: 41
With the (complete) lack of out-of-the-box WYSIWYGs, should we consider using 3rd party packages like TinyMCE, FCKEditor, YUI?
Comments
ease-of-use
The most important factor in this decision is that we want DrupalMU to work out-of-the-box. If we force users to download an external package and install it before they can use the wysiwyg, this is a huge blow for user-friendliness. On the other hand we do want to offer users some way to have a wysiwyg and if this is the only solution, so be it. Other options would be to continue the search of out-of-the-box wysiwygs or to write one ourselves...
3rd party libraries not a big deal
Really, while it'd be ideal to have WYSIWYG "just work", I don't see this a deal-stopper that we require a third-party library be downloaded and installed. Even though Drupal has gotten easier to install, it still requires some technical skill to install. I think for now we just have to assume that an installer of DrupalMU will have at least enough skills to download and place in the right directory a third-party library.
Kyle Mathews
Kyle Mathews
maybe we should just include it
Thanks for your input Mathews. Perhaps we should just include it? Here's Dries' reply:
I believe in this case there's a very good reason for it to be mirrored. I notice that TinyMCE is under LGPL, I'm not sure if that's fully compatible.
BUEditor
Have you also considered BUEditor?
As mentioned in
As mentioned in http://groups.drupal.org/node/7529 BUEditor is one of the two favorites currently, next to nicEdit.
fckeditor
FCKEditor is nice, plus the IMCE module makes it much easier to upload and embed pictures.
IMCE only works with fckeditor or tinymce. Of those two, I preferred fckeditor. [update: oh I see now bueditor and others work with it too, I'll try them out]
I also use a few other filters such as interwiki, freelinking, and video_filter in combination with fckeditor.