Implemented Redactor Jquery editor instead of Tinymce

[Alpha1]

I really dont like TinyMCE. It feels like I am back at webwizforum in 2002.
XenForo is a modern jquery based platform and therefore should use a modern editor. C

I suggest to implement Redactor:

http://imperavi.com/redactor/

 

[Digital Doctor]

redactor won't ever happen because of its license agreement.

Why is that ?

Chris changed his mind

 

[Ernest L. Defoe]

I really dont like TinyMCE. It feels like I am back at webwizforum in 2002.
XenForo is a modern jquery based platform and therefore should use a modern editor. C

I suggest to implement Redactor:

http://imperavi.com/redactor/

I don't care what they use but anything has to be better than TinyMCE.

 

[Biker]

Why is that ?

TinyMCE is open source. Redactor is not.

 

[Digital Doctor]

TinyMCE is open source. Redactor is not.

Xenforo wanted CKEditor .. but backed out when it had bugs. CKEditor is not Open Source but you have to pay to use it.

 

[melbo]

I really like that image/text wrap and inline image resizing

 

[Dodgeboard]

The cost for a software distributor to include Redactor in it's distributable product is a one time fee of $399, for unlimited distribution's. Hardly a huge investment for XF, with as many licenses as they sell. What is that?...(3) XF licenses, for virtually unlimited redistribution rights to incorporate Redactor into their core software? Looks like a pretty fair deal.

 

[Sheldon]

If its that big of an issue... I am certain 10 people throwing in $50 to get that accomplished would not be a problem at all. Hehe.

 

[Ernest L. Defoe]

After playing around with Redactor I would love for xF to ship with this. I think it would make xF that much ahead of everyone else. The inline image resize that melbo mentioned is freaking awesome.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Switching TinyMCE to something else is quite an undertaking. Chris Deeming would know.

 

[cclaerhout]

For the record a thread already exists about Redactor.
See here.

 

[MOZ]

Xenforo wanted CKEditor .. but backed out when it had bugs. CKEditor is not Open Source.

It is opensource.

If its that big of an issue... I am certain 10 people throwing in $50 to get that accomplished would not be a problem at all. Hehe.

Yeah, why not?

One issue that I can think of with Redactor straight away is that is it doesn't support BBCode.

 

[Grover]

After playing around with Redactor I would love for xF to ship with this. I think it would make xF that much ahead of everyone else. The inline image resize that melbo mentioned is freaking awesome.

Never heard of Redactor... after Alfa's suggestion I checked it out also and wow:

• http://imperavi.com/redactor/examples/air/ - Love the fact that it works like Office 2010 where you get context-sensitive tools when you select a text,
• Very much like the table (how much I needed this in vB) and horizontal line features,
• Fixed toolbar (!)... will this make fullscreen capabilities possible?

Personally I don't have much problems with the current Xenforo editor (but I seem to be in the minority ), other then pressing 'Insert/edit link' seems to be quite slow. However the above listed 3 points are (at least for me/my platform) very welcome features I would love to be able to use in Xenforo if I ever switch to it. (I am actually still not using Xenforo on any of my projects).

 

[Slavik]

Indeed, would love to see Redactor integration. Having tried it on a few example sites, it works so smoothly.

 

[Grover]

They have interesting plugins, http://imperavi.com/redactor/docs/plugins/:

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Fullscreen
The "fullscreen" mode is now a plugin on the toolbar to toggle full-window editing on and off.

Clips
Adds a drop-down list of pre-defined "clips" (or "snips") that you can create to save time, such as intro or footer text.
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Very interesting, as I was always looking for my Mods to have ready-made text-snippets for them, so that they can just press a dropdown and select a canned response to yet again a member who is posting unwanted advertisements. Clips like that would come in soooo handy, making life on the forum for my Mods considerably easier and fun.

 

[DroidHost]

even their doc and plugin implantation seems clean and neat

 

[Shamil]

I quite like redactor, clean and simple!

 

[Slavik]

They have interesting plugins, http://imperavi.com/redactor/docs/plugins/:

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Fullscreen
The "fullscreen" mode is now a plugin on the toolbar to toggle full-window editing on and off.

Clips
Adds a drop-down list of pre-defined "clips" (or "snips") that you can create to save time, such as intro or footer text.
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Very interesting, as I was always looking for my Mods to have ready-made text-snippets for them, so that they can just press a dropdown and select a canned response to yet again a member who is posting unwanted advertisements. Clips like that would come in soooo handy, making life on the forum for my Mods considerably easier and fun.

I like the "air editor" setting personally.

 

[Eagle]

TinyMCE is obviously the most popular plugin, used even by XenForo but CKEditor is a big project and CKEditor seems more feature full. On the positive, it's far more consistent but bug-free than TinyMCE. CKEditor is very stable, very easy to use and has integrated the file manager. For example, I really like CKEditor's autogrow feature.

 

[MOZ]

I was able to integrate CKEditor on a test dev.
Lacking experience in CKeditor, I was unable to add extra tags/smilies support.
I'm willing to work with someone if they are up for it.