A textarea is a simple editor, I am assuming you want something better than that, or you wouldn't have looked further. Have you heard the expression (there is no free lunch), it applies here. Strictly speaking, a textarea is a wysiwyg editor, (what you see is what you get) you just don't see or get very much, one font, no formatting(other than what you can do with a carriage return, or a space bar). These editors can be very complex, but you do have some control in most of them to manage the complexity that you reveal to your users, and to do that you will have to know more about it than your users do (again, no free lunch). I like TinyMCE, it allows me to make sure that my users have a simple interface, and is real easy to setup (relative to developing the whole thing myself), but most of the ones you cite can probably fill that bill. Warren Vail > -----Original Message----- > From: mike [mailto:mike503@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 12:05 PM > To: AmirBehzad Eslami > Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: FCKEditor, TinyMCE, ... I need a light > weight WYSIWYG HTML Editor > > On 8/17/08, AmirBehzad Eslami <behzad.eslami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > I'm looking for a light weight WYSIWYG HTML Editor to allow > users to > > send private messages to each other in a forum application. > > > > FCKEditor is too complex and very huge for my purposes. I want a > > simple editor. What do you recommend? > > WordPress has tweaked tinymce a lot to maintain <p> spacing > and code snippets and embedded objects. We've tried both at > my job with various configurations, both have had issues - > but we've had the most success and our users have been happy > with WordPress's configuration (which uses a couple custom > javascript things + specific tinymce > configuration) > > I've been trying to examine the differences so I can create a > reusable standalone component we can use in all our various > apps... but WP has hooked in a lot of custom code and it's > been a bit annoying trying to split it out into a single > reusable javascript file and stuff. Almost done though. I > went overboard and tried to make it more generic by renaming > and cleaning up the functions to not need any WordPress > callbacks and stuff and wound up messing it up, so I have to > go back again and probably re-create it from scratch.. Doh :) > > Honestly in a forum setting you can just give them a bbcode > howto/link on the side and let them put in their own bbcode > (which can be a strict subset of HTML) - or even just allow > HTML tags and limit what they can do. Loading up a > javascript-based thing even if it's pretty lightweight is > still annoying and I could see that being overkill for a forum. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
