On Jun 13, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > Vincent Massol wrote: >> I'm really surprised there's no good already existing WYSIWYG editor >> based on GWT. It's a pity since I'm pretty sure it'll exist >> relatively >> soon and we'll already have done all our work... Since it's not >> XWiki's job to write WYSIWYG editors it's a pity we have to write it. >> If we could have focused on just choosing what controls we wanted + >> the html <-> wiki conversions that would have been better. >> >> Anyway that's probably the cost of being early adopters... I hope our >> editor will really rock thanks to that and keep us ahead of the >> competition :) (although when a real cool GWT editor is created the >> competition will be able to leapfrog us). > > Well, after we have the first working version, we can release it as > a generic editor, so we can be > that really cool GWT editor. If it's outside, we won't be able to > control it (as in "strongly > request the features we need"). If we manage to make it generic > enough to attract a community, we > can emphasize the features we need, and let others make it glittery > and shiny, so we'll have the > best editor custom made for XWiki.
Yes I know we could do this and I even agree completely in theory... but... creating a community and making a generic product is a *LOT* of work and we don't have half of the required manpower to do that. It's already difficult enough to do it for XWiki and we don't want to take away people from the XWiki so that they spend all their time on fostering a GWT WYSIWYG editor community IMO. Now IF someone approaches us and that person want to separate our WYSIWYG editor and make it an external project then yes that'd be great and the best and we could support that person. But supporting and doing it are a very different things. -Vincent > So Marius, keep in mind that any XWiki specific feature must not be > hard wired in the editor. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
