[wp-hackers] Greetings from FCKeditor

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

If you want plugins that work with TinyMCE to work with FCKeditor too, then
you'd (at least) need to provide the same WordPress hooks for FCKeditor that
TinyMCE has.


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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Aaron D. Campbell <
wp-hackers at ezdispatch.com> wrote:

> I'm not speaking on behalf of WordPress either, but I like the idea of
> having both choices available in core, or at least a slightly more
> official plugin that works a little better (dean's is decent, but
> requires fixes to work on Linux, and has a few drawbacks:
> http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin/ ).
> Could we make both work, and allow the user to choose "Use tinyMCE
> visual editor" "Use FCKeditor visual editor" or "Don't use visual editor"
>
> Alex Günsche wrote:
> > Hi Frederico,
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 16:48 +0100, Frederico Caldeira Knabben wrote:
> >
> >> These are our first steps inside the WP devs territory, so please point
> me
> >> to the right directions to expose our ideas to you. A nice option would
> be
> >> having a quick chat with anyone or many of you, to catch up your
> >> impressions. Feel free to send me a message directly in that case.
> >>
> >
> > I'm not speaking for WordPress or for the members of this list, but only
> > for myself. Anyway, I'm afraid that chances aren't too good for other
> > editors than TinyMCE in WordPress. TinyMCE is incorporated quite deeply
> > into the WP admin area, and the WP TinyMCE contains much customization
> > by the WP devs.
> >
> > Nevertheless, choice is usually a nice thing, and I know there are quite
> > some people who replaced TinyMCE with FCKeditor by plugins or core
> > hacks. However, in my opinion, offering a core choice in regards to the
> > WYSIWYG editor used by WordPress would require some very good arguments,
> > why TinyMCE is insufficient, or why FCKeditor is a good alternative, so
> > good that it justifies the bunch of additional work for integrating
> > another editor or abstracting the structures to allow other editors to
> > plug in.
> >
> > But that's really just my two cents (and I don't even use WYSIWYG
> > editors).
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alex
>
>