There are a couple of “Word like” onsite editors floating around but I need to rant about one stealing my time.
WordPress uses tinyMCE and it works well even while having it’s flaws, you get your work done, there are a couple of plugins to extend it to embed videos and all normal people need so you do not have to switch to the codeview as often.
Then there is the mess called FCKeditor (Best Quote: “the text editor for the internet”).
While it works after you are done installing it. It imposes a hell of design flaws onto you.
- Rather unpleasant configuration with endless options (most people just touch the original sources which just pains you on upgrades)
- It has issues with Word/PlainText and general formatting interoperability
- You simply can NOT use the browser paste menu… Only CTRL+<cmd> shortcuts are working
- Bad OOP architecture, mix of OOP and some crap I simply don’t understand (Yes, they work on it for future 3.0…)
- Hardcore to extend with any plugins/custom functionality, most of the features are not plugins themselfs
- Other stuff combines to bad handling of tag, visual/code switches, spellchecking… (stuff like YouTube embedding is hard to do etc.)
- The documentation only touches the first tidbit of what you actually need to know
Yes, I had to fix issues with it as it was used on a website I was asked to help on and I do not feel like contributing to the original project either as they ripoff people to buy their advanced Filebrowser for something that is designated as a FOSS project in the first place.
An onsite visual editor should end up being useful and allow editors to be productive with it.
Short, I can haz NOT FCKeditor and try to avoid it in your next project!
