Yep, It just depends on how much flexibility you need etc. TinyMCE is more of the kitchen sink, where these other tools are minimalistic, which would probably be better for commenting.
Good luck. On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Ryan Felton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, I see.. I've used RedCloth and textile-editor-helper for this. We > did use TinyMCE in the past and it was a pain. > > I've cleaned up the textile-editor-helper plugin and put the code up > on github: http://github.com/felttippin/textile-editor-helper/tree/master > > I've also heard good things about this one: > http://github.com/pelargir/textile_toolbar/tree/master > > Ryan > > > On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Ken wrote: > > > Hi Ryan, > > Thanks for the response. In this particular situation I don't think > the syntaxhighlighter will help because nobody will be posting code > snippets on this blog (it's part of an application that's not for > developers). I'm not familiar with the white list plugin so I'll > check it out. > > Thanks, Ken > > > On Oct 31, 2:21 pm, Ryan Felton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Assuming you're not using wordpress as your blogging engine: > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/screenshots/ > > > > I'd say check out the libraryhttp://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/ > > . > > > > I've used the white list pluginhttp:// > svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/white_list/ > > and added table, th, tr, and td tags to it. > > > > Ryan > > > > On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Ken Hudson wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm working on a new application that will need a blog. The basics > > for creating a blog are well documented all over the web and are > > pretty easy and straightforward. However, most of what you find is > > very simplistic - blog entries and comments just consisting of simple > > text, for example. In my application, I will need to allow blog posts > > to have at least some HTML markup (e.g., links, unordered lists, and > > in particular images). The same goes for blog comments. Does anyone > > have any suggestions on how to go about doing this? RedCloth would > > appear to be one alternative but my users aren't going to know Textile > > and there's no way I can expect them to learn it. I need to balance > > my requirements with a healthy concern for cross site scripting (XSS) > > and I'm unsure how to proceed. I'm very curious how sites likehttp:// > www.rubyinside.com > > accomplish this. I would greatly appreciate any advice! > > > > Thanks, Ken > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
