Okay, this is what I propose for the editors ...

1. The only editors enabled by default in new installations will be the "text" 
and "rte/dhtml" editors.

2. I recommend we remove/consolidate the midas, dhtml, text-js, and rte editors 
into a single javascript/dhtml editor.  The look will be based on the rte/dhtml 
editors.  Assuming time permits, we would update this editor to contribute 
better html.

3. The ekit editor is very nice looking, but seems to have some problems.  It 
always started my documents with "<html>" which is bad, and it won't work too 
well with the 2 textareas.  I would like to EOL this editor and move it to the 
sandbox or contrib area where someone else can continue supporting it if they 
want.  It won't be available in a default Roller install though.

4. The wiki-js editor will also be removed or placed somewhere like the sandbox 
or contrib areas.

That covers all 7 of our editors.  Speak now if you are really adverse to any 
of these changes.

-- Allen


On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:18, Allen Gilliland wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 10:54, Lance Lavandowska wrote:
> > The old configuration had a place for listing which editors to make
> > available to users (I haven't upgraded since before 1.0) and I don't
> > recall you removing this when you rewrote the configuration bits.
> 
> still there.  a simple comma separated list in the admin UI config page.
> 
> > 
> > On the 2 sections: the "editors" are really just replacements for the
> > textarea that holds the main content.  You could use an editor twice,
> > once for the main content and once for the excerpt.  I suppose there
> > may be issues with the javascript-powered editors, and I wouldn't want
> > to load up two Ekit applets per page.
> 
> exactly.  i took a very brief look at some of the editors and many of them 
> have code in them specific to the single textarea approach.
> 
> > 
> > Are you certain modifying the editors is the right solution to the
> > problem of two textareas?
> 
> i'm not sure how else to do it.  if we are going to offer 2 textareas then 
> the editors need to support that one way or another.
> 
> -- Allen
> 
> > 
> > Lance
> 

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