Hi,

Nice idea to create some kind of central place concerning WYSIWYG in Drupal.
Maybe it would be interesting to create a WYSIWYG group on groups.drupal.org, in order to attract more people to give opinions regarding this matter?
A group at groups.drupal.org would also avoid mixing general ideas and concepts with specific code and issues (which i think is the primary goal of an issuequeue like this).

I am very much in favor of creating a WYSIWYG API, because, as stated in the module description, a lot of this code is duplicate for multiple editors.
I recently integrated the Whizzywig module into Drupal, and already vaguely thought about having a WYSIWYG API (see http://drupal.org/node/178240), because i felt like a lot of the code i was writing, was already existing for other modules (or at least a variant of the code).

I'd like to help with the ideas you are having. Hopefully a bunch of people could be gathered so we can have the WYSIWYG functionality in Drupal a bit standardised.
There are tons of topics in the forums regarding WYSIWYG, so having a group of people thinking how we could take WYSIWYG to the next level in Drupal seems like something that might be needed.

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Title: WYSIWYG Group? » WYSIWYG group
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Go on! Create the group! You're very welcome to join this party! :)

I'll add a notice to the project description when the group is setup. Another idea: We might convince Moshe to rename the existing TinyMCE WYSIWYG group to be a generic WYSIWYG group.

The goals for wysiwyg have been enhanced in the meantime. Go on, grab yourself the latest code from the DRUPAL-5 branch and read which goals/tasks/features have been identified so far. If you have any issues with the current code (docs), just create a new issue and let's discuss!

To only read what's there yet: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/wysiwyg/

This project is of democratic nature and just initiated by me. There are a bunch of things to discuss, plan, co-ordinate and most importantly to code. It will not evolve, unless more editor/plugin maintainers are actively participating in this queue (and hopefully in the upcoming group). I'm glad, the first one (you) is already willing to participate.

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I've created a group on drupal.org: http://groups.drupal.org/wysiwyg

I will have a closer look at the code you've written when i have some time. I only quickly browsed it. I'm not sure if i will be able to help immediately, because it seems quite conceptual...
Let's hope more people will give their opinions on the matter...

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Added the link to the project description and joined the group. Great work, Sven!

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Seems like i missed a mail by the groups.drupal.org moderators sent earlier. They asked me to contact the owner of the 'TinyMCE development' to broaden up his group.
I have now done so, and will wait for his answer. Until then i don't know if the Wysiwyg group i created can be used. In the mail there was mentioning of the group still being in moderation, but as people already registered, it seems to be active.

We'll see how this turns out i guess :)

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Seems the group i have created will have to be used anyway :)

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@svendecabooter , maybe make the posts in this group public by default, so everybody can see them without registration to the group. Less clicks more users ;)

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I have set the group to open subscription upon creation. There wasn't really an option whether posts are public or private, or at least i didn't find it...
Normally they should be publicly accessible. However there aren't any posts in the group yet at the moment.

I also noticed it is still under moderation, and don't show up in the Groups list. I'll have to find out who to contact to change this.

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@sven: That's Moshe Weitzman (http://drupal.org/user/23)

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