By juozas on

What do you prefer better? I am thinking about moving to wysiwyg from bbcode solution. My site is strongly forum oriented.

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yautja_cetanu’s picture

yautja_cetanu commented

So you are thinking of moving to wysiwig for forum posts? Whats your reasoning? I can't imagine that would be great because forum posts are supposed to be fast without much formatting imo.

juozas’s picture

juozas commented

The reason for moving is that people post complex comments (quotes, images, text styling, etc). Sometimes they include some unnecessary bbcode markup ([/qoute] at the end with no starting [qoute]) and this breaks page. And image handling in Wysiwyg seems to be more understandable for average user.

But I haven't seen any popular forum using Wysiwyg. So I'm wonderind about community reaction.

What about performance?

On D6 I'm using these modules:
Advanced forum
Quote
Smileys
Flatcomment
BBCode
BUEditor

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Elteto commented

It is more about functionality. In Drupal you can give the users the option to enable or disable text editor. This way if they are hard coders, they can keep doing manual tags, and others can just click on the text editor link and use a fancy WYSIWYG editor You provide more options for users, everyone is happy, and it is inviting to less code-savvy users. You cannot beat THAT positive reaction, right? Do not worry about what "popular" forums are doing. Just a hunch, but probably they are not popular just because the world is full of manual markup fetishists. It is probably about content, community, interaction, mutual interest/fanaticism about a subject. Make your site even better than the other guys' with more functionality.

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Elteto commented

WYSIWYG is an implementation of editing when as you are creating and formatting your document, you actually see how the final outcome will look. In Drupal, WYSIWYG (http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg) is a module that allows the implementation of editors (similar to the toolbars of word processing applications). You can, of course, set a WYSIWYG editor to apply BBCode (http://www.bbcode.org/) to your document. In Drupal, you have solutions that do NOT require you to apply any markup code to your posts. You will probably achieve greater universal compatibility if you use a WYSIWYG editor that applies HTML markup tags.

It would help if we had a bit more background on your project you are planning to migrate.