Which is the best WYSIWYG
stuartgoff - January 18, 2007 - 16:41
Which is the best WYSIWYG editor for Drupal? I know this is a loaded question, but I've been using tinyMCE (no problems) and I was wondering about some of the other modules.
I would be interested in the ease of use (admin and user) and the size (physical and server load)
Stu
tinyMCE is working fine with
tinyMCE is working fine with Opera but not FCKeditor. FCKeditor sometimes you need to refresh your browser in order to make it work. TinyMCe has more functions. Some people say FCKeditor is faster.
TinyMCE
I'd vote for TinyMCE. My clients really like the word-processing interface.
But to get it's full power you should integrate it with Image and Image_Assist. Also, you have to download the TinyMCE javascript seperately. The instructions are adequate, but it can be a bear to set it all up.
Pros:
Cons:
I know the cons sound awful, but you don't have to configure everything at once. For a basic install, you only need the TinyMCE module and the TinyMCE code.
BTW, I'm working on a tutorial for taming TinyMCE. But first I have to finish upgrading my website to 5.0!
I'd be interested in your
I'd be interested in your tutorial. I'm configuring TinyMCE at the moment, and the only way I can find to create a new editor mode is to hack the module ... there must be a better way! Also, I wasn't able to get the compressor plug-in working with 5.0.
Videocast tutorial
If you are considering to create a videocast on installing TinyMCE, please notify us here. I would love to list that videocast on the overview of videocasts.
img_assist not image_assist
When I said “image_assist”, I, of course, meant img_assist.
It seems to me that IMCE is
It seems to me that IMCE is waaay more convenient and intuitive for me and for my clients.. It's the best image inserting tool that I saw in Drupal, small good and all-the-features in the box.
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tutorial;)
Good idea. We should pack a tinymce module with all in place.
Especially the g2image module to integrate gallery2 module in tinymce with drupal 5.1 takes some time. I used several hours before it worked. A lot of rewrite in varius files were nessesary.
BR
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Consider how sophisticated your users are
Some of the editors provide tons of advanced features which are great for advanced users.
I have a website for users who are not that familiar with computers and internet, thus I decided to use the more basic widgeditor.
I'm sure you've heard the term 'don't make me think' when it comes to usability. :-)
So it's important to consider who actually will use the interface you provide.
Always think of your users
Ralf is correct. Always think of your users' needs first.
Having said that... TinyMCE's interface is configurable. Just go into it's admin interface and select which buttons you want or don't want to show.
good to know
I didn't know that, thanks for the info, I'll take a look at it
(since the widgeditor turned out to be buggy when displayed by default, which is what i wanted to do)
TinyMCE or Moxie ?
I did not understand the difference
one more question: Isn't tinyMCE able to resize images on the editing mode ?
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Moxie!
The maintainer for the TinyMCE editor reduced its functionality to make it smaller and faster in Drupal 5. In doing so, IMHO, he made it virtually useless, enough so that I could not even consider migrating my sites to Drupal 5.
The Moxie module reinstates the functionality that existed in the TinyMCE module for Drupal 4.7.
I haven't tried it yet with Drupal 5, but I have specified a size as a percentage for an image size (width) with TinyMCE in Drupal 4.7, using .jpg images. You need to be careful though to insure that your image is small enough to download quickly yet has sufficient resolution to display with reasonable quality when the user uses a high (large) resolution window.
Mel
I agree 'bout Tiny v5.x
I liked the ability to set up TinyMCE by role. But the fact that you cannot enable/disable at text entry like you could in earlier ver make it unusable. You can't put in pure HTML or PHP if the module's turned on.
Boo!
Still waiting?
BTW, I was waiting on the TinyMCE 5.x-1.0 version before doing my tutorial, but after looking at the issue queue, I’m a bit appalled. Ignoring many good coding/versioning practices, the developers are trying to:
All at the same time!
If they had just tackled each one of these separately, there would be an official 5.x version already.
What’s worse is that they don’t seem to be following Drupal’s version naming standards and are labeling things like “version 4.7 for Drupal 4.7”, “version 5.1 for Drupal 5.x” and “version 5.2 for Drupal 5.x”. The “5.2” version isn’t available, so you can’t even test or patch against the latest code.
shudder.
Even though I hate forks, I’ll be taking a look at Moxie. I just don’t have time to try to wade into that other mess.
Moxie
Moxie is the 4.7.x ver of TinyMCE ported to 5.x.x and works like the old ver did. If you liked TinyMCE for Drupal 4.7 you'll love Moxie for 5.x.x
Available at http://drupal.org/project/moxie
Available at http://drupal.org/project/moxie
FCKeditor *always* needs a
FCKeditor *always* needs a refresh when using Safari :( I'm getting really frustrated by it.
fckeditor
I much prefer fckeditor + IMCE for image handling.
It's slow to load the first time, but after that it's fine.