More or less a memo topic to remember any possible alternative editor that could be used to replace SCEditor in the case there would be the need to.
https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor
Good topic to have around given recent, or lack of, support / updates to the current one. Hope Sam at least surfaces to finish 1.5 but he has been essentially absent for a year.
Yep, I saw this one this morning at taz on a topic related to the paid one (I don't remember the name) and thought it would be nice to keep track.
The main problem is find one that will be kind of supported and developed "for a while".
This is another one that looks pretty nice http://www.wysibb.com/ but the last commit is July last year.
I already suggested it. I guess
@emanuele prefers not to pack a non open source item with an open source software.
Redactor II (current) would cost us ~$1500 to get a license that would allow us to use (and distribute) it in an OS project.
We could use the old Redactor I level (which was OS) but no one (to my knowledge) has adopted it and is maintaining it, so once again we would be in the position to maintain it and fix problems caused by every new windows and iphone release.
Xenforo can "afford" this luxury since you have to pay for it ;)
Yep, Redactor.
As I posted at TAZ, I don't see the point of using closed code in an open source project (of course addons are welcome! Even though I don't really like XF editor (the undo is not something the editor should take care, but let the OS handle it for example), but "unfortunately" I'm old school :P).
If it is just quote it's nothing, right Spuds? :P
This looks a good alternative.
What's wrong with the actual editor Sceditor? It works fine for me
Well, better have a plan-b, you never know what could happen. ;)
Yup it works very well, and I even understand (somewhat) how to write proper plugins for it now :D (I even have split quote working in wizzy mode in 1.1) ....
The main issue is one of support. Sam, the main developer, has not been around much in the last year. Even with this absence, the code is more up to date then most of the "other" ones out there ... but like Eman said, good to have a plan just in case.
Too bad there's not a good base layer or API for interacting with text in a text box. After that hopefully everyone would use that. Then a general consensus or dare I say "standard" for that for user-generated content software to make use of. It might be worth it reaching out to several editor makers and several users (Wordpress, SMF, phpBB, etc) to work on that.
I don't really understand what kind of editor can be used (I'm not a programmer) but I find ProseMirror today: https://github.com/ProseMirror/prosemirror from today discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11153757
I feel like this is what contenteditable is for... or maybe not, not sure at all... :-\
Anyway, in forums case, the problem is not really the "editor", if it was just for the editor there are some quite good. The main issue is that unless we want to go back to the old "let php handle it with all the tricks for different browsers and different versions of the same browser", the editor has to take care of the HTML-to-BBC conversion, so that "server-side" we just htmlspecialchar anything and we are happy. Unfortunately, the number of editors that deal with BBC (and do it "our" way or in a way that can be easily swapped) is rather limited (I feel less than 5, I know of 3 plus the two bigs TinyMCE and CKEditor with their plugin, though they are GPL/LGP/MPL, so never sure about what's "good").
Looks nice, it lacks the "bbcode" part as far as I can tell, though. :(
Anyway, just to be clear, this topic is not meant as "let's rush changing the editor", it's more like "in the case we'd have to change the editor, here are few alternatives ready for consideration". ;D
I understand that. :) Just throwing more options, I checked at least it's actively developed.
@emanuele that's actually what I mean - the part about swapping in and out conversions. The base layer would be the part that handles the text interaction. The higher level would be the part that does the conversions.
the license of Redator is for one year or one time pay?
Hell, if it was 1500 for one year it would be robbery. Also emanuele said "to distribute" so it should be permanent.
where did you find that info?
Redactor license is one time pay for the version bought: https://imperavi.com/redactor/license/
So if any new major version released we must buy it again.
Too tired, said emanuele when I meant Spuds...
I really like how Redactor's code is designed. Look at how easy this is: https://imperavi.com/redactor/examples/buttons-sup-and-sub/