TinyMCE is a great free javascript based WYSIWYG editor however it is distinctly lacking in one main area: appearance. If you ask me, the default design of the editor sucks and one of the most important features of web based WYSIWYG editors is that it looks and feels like a real editing interface.
The default “full featured” interface of TinyMCE looks as follows:
The layout of the elements, though customisable is a mess - you have no clear division of elements which serve different purposes - tools which relate to text manipulation, inserting content or formating text.
I spent the better half of the afternoon redesigning TinyMCE in to what I’d say is a much more pleasant interface to work with. I did this for a client project I’m currently working on that requires a simple WYSIWYG editor for managing site content.
I honestly feel I’ve improved the interface a lot and at some time in the future I’ll submit my changes to the TinyMCE Sourceforge site as a patch as well as a few other code modifications I’ve made. All that I feel the need to do now is replace the silly popup windows TinyMCE uses to insert links, smilies, images, etc with some inline versions which would make TinyMCE just that much better once again.
If there is enough interest - I’ll release them here.
That’s basically it for now as I’m really busy with several things so Merry Christmas for last week and Happy New Year for this week.
Comments
Guido (December 31st, 2006, 11:07 am)
Yay! Release it, I found the same problem with TinyMCE but was always too lazy to fix it
While I’m at it, happy new year!!!
Tikitiki (December 31st, 2006, 2:51 pm)
oooo… much prettier.
Paul Fraser (December 31st, 2006, 3:36 pm)
agread, release it Surfi! i want
Hans Schipper (January 2nd, 2007, 5:48 am)
looks very good, please release it!
monloup (January 2nd, 2007, 8:42 pm)
yes please, share your work and knowledge as christmas/endyear gift
thx
Christof (January 3rd, 2007, 7:44 pm)
Relase! Release! Release!
Please!
Christof (January 3rd, 2007, 7:57 pm)
Release it!
I´m interested in it…
Happy new year!
DrPoodle (January 6th, 2007, 11:08 am)
Forget about releasing it as a single product…put it in MyBB 1.4!!!
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