By olof-1 on

Hi,

I'm looking for an editor to use and would like to have some recommendations which one to use, fckeditor or tinymce (or something else)?

Thanks in advance

/Olof

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krisvannest’s picture

krisvannest commented

Not sure if you mean (a) an off-line editor for development with PHP/HTML/etc source Drupal files, or (b) an on-line HTML editor for your users when they post... if the former, give Notepad++ a try at http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm as it auto color codes for a ton of computer languages (including PHP) and has saved me a ton of time vs. regular ol notepad apps.

mfh’s picture

mfh commented

I suppose the question is about what wysiwyg editor to install "in" drupal.
This is a very confusing issue for newcomers (like me too).

TinyMCE is seemingly powerful but a bit cumbersome to install and default "edit modes" seem unappropriately chosen to me (nothing in between 4 lines of icons for all imaginable fancy functions, and only "bold / italic" buttons without elementary paragraph formatting)

widgEditor on the other hand is straigtforward to install, but I had some problems of seeing multiple instances of it (2 editors for the same page...) - maybe due to localization problems(?)

there are many discussions on this site emphasizing the importance of the issue, but I miss still a user friendly "portal" about this... (synthetic table with comparisions, criteria helping to make the choice...)

Scourge’s picture

Scourge commented

We used TinyMCE on our intranet site for many months, recently switched to FCKeditor and have been very happy with it. It's been easier to configure for me, and easier for new users to learn and use than TinyMCE.

The IEspell spellchecker works great, format/style drop-downs look like the actual styles, Word cleanup is better, and the image browser is much easier than the TinyMCE + Img Assist combo.

The only thing I miss from TinyMCE is the warning you get when trying to navigate away from unsaved content. Which hopefully could be added to FCKeditor.

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trantt commented

Except for dirty HTML tags (TinyMCE created a lot of junk/un-necessary tags), TinyMCE was working great for us. But however, I just installed FKEditor last week on one of mine test side and noticed that the HTML tags are much cleaner and easier to read.