XStandard XHTML (Strict or 1.1) WYSIWYG Editor

Monday 03 April 2006 3:40:16 am

It could perfectly be done as a contribution _ depending on how the editor is extensible _ but it will never be officially integrated by eZ Systems, due to its licensing scheme. I'm not 100% sure of what freeware means with the Lite version, but that editor looks like a proprietary solution with no opensource licensing.

Feel free to work on it as an extension ;)

Bertrand Dunogier
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Monday 03 April 2006 4:22:15 am

Not entirely the same but likely relevant (and hey, we all like to pimp our extensions) do take a look at http://triligon.org/triligon/blog/blogcategories/node_156

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Monday 03 April 2006 5:42:33 am

In IE it's quite slow, but in Firefox it's acceptable on my machine (which ain't that fast FWIW)...

It could obviously be made faster by removing some features :)

And the link and image insertion features need better backends which could make them much much faster.

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Monday 03 April 2006 6:27:08 am

It works just fine for my uses. I'll likely fix the image browsing when I get the time, but other than that I'm quite happy with it.

As for copy past in Firefoxe: that's a security "feature" in Firefox which is somewhat hard to circumvent and supporting pasting of images would be rather hard to integrate into ez so I doubt this will ever be supported.

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Monday 03 April 2006 7:13:46 am

Thanks guys for your replies.

Just another general discussion.

I am quite familiar with ezpublish and the online editor because i am using ezpublish for a quite while. I must say it is very powerful content management system. On the other hand i am not much happy with the online editor. Some of the problems which i usally face while uploading the content.

1. Some time if i copy some content from the browser to microsoft word and then from microsoft word to the ez online editor, it inserts <paragraph class="msoNormal"> sort of tag in every paragraph, which i dont why.

2. While uploading the images in an article via "Add Object" button you have to first upload the image and give proper "alternative text". So you can't upload directly with just one click. Very length process.

3. While uploading the images in the "Related objects" section via "Upload new" button you can't specify proper alternative text for images. These days proper alternative text for an image is very necessay to meet the accessiblity issues.

4. You can't drop drag images.

5. No table summary. which is also very important for accessiblity issues.

6. Can't embed image or files inline to text. Only can do left, right, centre.

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Points 5, 6 can be easily done. not a problem, but other are a issue at the moment. Hopefully developers of online editor can consider all these ponts.

Regards
Smith

Monday 03 April 2006 8:50:32 am

Hi Subbotin,

Thanks for your kind reply.

Discussing on the basis of points refering to my previous e-mail.

1. I am using online editor version 4.0.2. Still getting paragraph sort of thing sometimes when copy from microsoft word.

2. I can't see any kind of "Upload New" button after clicking "Add Object". What i am getting after clicking "Add Object" is a list of folders where you can browse where the image is. Please correct if i am wrong.

3. When you upload the image by selecting "Image" from the drop list in the "Sub items" section, then it is very fine, you can specify caption, name and alternative text for an image. The only problem comes when you the uploading the image by "Upload new" button, there is no such interface to write down caption, name and alternative text for an image.

4. Xstandard uses ActiveX, I agree we can't have that sort of functionality with javascript but I think this is the point to be consider for our future developments.

5. The summary of a table is never displayed in visual browsers; it is exclusively designed for screen readers and speech browsers. It is exactly what it sounds like: a summary, a longer description than the caption. It is usually read immediately before the caption.

6. Agree.

7. Another point with online editor is when I copy some text from another web browser, it doesnot handle the html special characters very well. For e.g Single quotes. You have to go into the online editor delete that character and type the character again. It should be capable of cleaning and putting them correct.

Regards
Smith

Thursday 06 April 2006 12:43:15 am

Regarding summary of table in html:

<table border="1" width="99%" summary="Description about the table and columns">
<tr>
<th></th>
<th></th>

</tr>
<tr>

<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

I checked the fckeditor, seems to be very fast and draging and droping of the objects works in the editor(IE ONLY). The commercial license seems to be quite expensive.

Thanks

Smith