[wp-hackers] Let's make Buttonsnap fully obsolete

[Viper007Bond]

On the backwards compatibility front, I'm actually seriously considering
just dropping pre-2.5 support for all of my plugins. Users are welcome to
use older versions of my plugins, but the amount of duplicate code is
getting rediculous.

For example, in my Video Quicktags plugin, I have to add buttons THREE
different ways -- one for WordPress 2.0, one for TinyMCE 2, and one for
TinyMCE 3. Then for the BBCode (aka shortags), if I want to switch to using
the much easier and more robust shortags API in 2.5, I'd still have to
maintain the old regex code for previous versions.

It's kinda like once you start coding for PHP5 and using the new features,
it's hard to keep supporting PHP4 (although I will as that's not nearly as
bad).

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Stephane Daury <wordpress at tekartist.org>
wrote:

>
> Argh, now that I spent all that time integratiing with it and TinyMCE 2
> and 3?!? :p
>
> Kidding, it's a great idea.
>
> Still gonna mean one more thing to support for plugins who want to be
> backward compatible, but it's a good decision for the future, methinks.
>
> ---
> Stephane Daury - http://tekartist.org/
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 02, 2008, at 1:14, Viper007Bond wrote:
>
>  For those who don't know, Buttonsnap is a PHP class that allows for super
> > easy adding of buttons to the non-RTE editor and used to allow for
> > adding
> > buttons to TinyMCE as well.
> >
> > Source:
> >
> > http://svn.wp-plugins.org/vipers-video-quicktags/trunk/resources/buttonsnap.php
> >
> > Buttonsnap was made partially obsolete with WordPress 2.1 which forced
> > us
> > plugin authors to write full fledged TinyMCE plugins to add buttons. (No
> > complaints from me really, just stating the facts).
> >
> > I propose we make it fully obsolete by introducing an API into the core
> > for
> > adding (and even modifying?) the buttons in the non-RTE. I know TinyMCE
> > is
> > the "preferred" editor of choice these days, but I absolutely hate the
> > thing
> > and I don't think everyone else uses it. Not to mention there's still
> > the
> > "HTML" aka Code tab that even TinyMCE users have access to.
> >
> > One solution would be to do quicktags.js -> quicktags.js.php and make it
> > dynamically generated (i.e. hooks and filters), but then we may run into
> > caching issues (although no-cache headers would fix that). Another
> > solution
> > would be one similar to how Buttonsnap works and just manually add
> > buttons
> > to the container.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this? Anyone else actually think it's a good idea?
> >
> > I for one would love to have to stop bundling Buttonsnap with my
> > plugins.
> > It's a great class, but it's time for it to retire and take it easy in
> > the
> > code retirement home.
> >
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