Hi DanTMan,
We made a strategic decision to use YUI a while back. It's been released
openly, it's supported by Yahoo, it has incredible documentation and
example code, and it's tested on the core set of browsers very
thoroughly. So, yes, you can count on being able to use YUI.
Our servers currently compress the js files being downloaded and shortly
we'll be consolidating files for less back-and-forth.
For FSKEditor and MediaWiki, we took a look at that before venturing
down the path of making our own. Here are some of the things I saw on
the FSKEditor extension page that led us to our decision:
* On a per-page-basis: Do not add the token "__USE_EDITOR__" on an
existing page which contains standard wiki syntax. The fckeditor
removes line breaks which corrupts your page layout. (But don't
panic, the history function is always available.)The text is
stored as *HTML* in the database.
* Removal of unwanted, hidden text properties can be a hard job in
some cases.
* Using Netscape 7.1 browser, you cannot use the "browser page-back"
navigation function beyond a page, where the WYSIWYG editor was
invoked for page editing.
* /Paste/ function (pasting clipboard content) seems to be
prohibited - at least when using Netscape 7.1 browser.
* "Show preview" function does not work properly.
* Templates will work if they do *only* contain wiki syntax.
* Special pages cannot be included.
The biggest issue for us, obviously, was that it stored data as HTML.
However, I see this page created as of July 17th, 2007(
http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/Main_Page ) that discusses it
storing wikitext, so we need to take another look.
Thanks,
John Q.
DanTMan wrote:
> I see we're loading the entire core for the YUI into Wikia.
> I'm wondering, how much of this is going to stick around? I've actually
> been working on ways to use the YUI and a few other things inside of
> MediaWiki. (I Got YUI Animated Tabs working, and EditArea's Syntax
> Highlighting enabled editor to work via Userscript only.) It could be
> nice to use the YAHOO YUI Libs to take the place of some of the existing
> things such as ShowHide and the cookie's used in some things like my
> CharInsert hider with cookie persistence.
>
> On the note of editors. What's the status of the plans for WYSIWYG? I
> looked over WYSIWYG extensions, and the FCKeditor+MediaWiki looks to me
> like the best done editor. Even if Wikia is going to build it's own
> WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki using WikiWYG I'm considering making
> helping the FCKeditor+MediaWiki project something for Wiki-Tools to do.
> Other than just the WYSIWYG functions and fixing the bugs like broken
> diff previews, I'm considering attempting to add a Syntax highlighting
> mode for WikiText, CSS, JS, and I suppose a few other languages.
>
> Looking over Wikia's extensions familiarizing myself with what there is
> to code. I notice some extensions I'd love to use, and some using tricks
> I'd never dare use in a thousand years... What are release plans? There
> are a few that would fit will for me, but the code is all GPL licensed.
> And last I remember reading the GPL, it let you keep the code to
> yourself. But if you distributed it you had to freely distribute it to
> everyone. So I don't believe I could just use some of the extensions. On
> that note, it would be nice to tag some of those stable extensions with
> the ExtensionCredits and release them.
>
>
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