Crawford Currie integrates new TinyMCE 3.2.2 in the Open-Source-Wiki’s Rich Text Editor
It is of great pleasure to announce, that in the current code repository, that can be tested at http://trunk.foswiki.org by community members, one can use the current version of TinyMCE 3.2.2.
Crawford Currie says in a message to the community:
This was a major upgrade, as it required recoding of all the Foswiki-specific code due to extensive API changes in TinyMCE. Hopefully this new version of Tiny MCE will fix some of the old niggles. However it will not be in Foswiki 1.0.4.
Please note, that the Foswiki community will test the new editor thoroughly before adding the feature to the official core code. Fosiwiki 1.0.4 will be released within the next days. Please do not expect this feature to be part of that release.
What are the benefits for Foswiki?
- You will be able to use an even more mature WYSIWYG-editor in your Foswiki.
- It will reduce errors and offer some more features. Please refer to the TinyMCE-Homepage for more info about the latest features.
- You will be able to integrate the powerful TinyMCE-Plugins like MCImageManager and MCFileManager.
- A lot of other additional TinyMCE-Plugins will be compatible with your Foswiki-editor in the future.
What can you do with it now?
- Help us to test the new feature, by using trunk.foswiki.org instead of www.foswiki.org for browsing through our website. You might need to get a registered foswiki user to edit pages.
- You can also test the implementation in your own foswiki, that you should install from trunk.
The Foswiki community says: “Thank you for your contribution, Crawford!”
Hi!
This is great news. I have one question though – I can see from the screenshot that not all of the available features of TinyMCE have been enabled (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php) such as ‘paste from Word’.
Are these features going to be supported by Foswiki?
Many thanks for the great work!
Hi Aaron,
As you probably know, Foswiki is almost infinitely configurable. And the Tiny MCE integration is no exception! All the features of standard Tiny MCE are available, you just have to enable them – follow the instructions in the plugin topic. You can also integrate external third party plugins, though that’s a little bit trickier – contact me if you need guidance.
I would also like the “paste from Word” feature to be activated by default. That will be very helpful especially for new users.
I am testing the WYSIWYG-editor in Foswiki 1.0.4 in the last days intensively. In a lot of cases, that I encountered problems and tested them in trunk to see, whether they are solved with TinyMCE 3.2.2 I found out: Yes.
That is good news.