[Koha-patches] Bug 5401: WYSWYG for Koha News

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Koustubha Kale <kmkale at anantcorp.com> wrote:
> This patch adds WYSWYG editor functionality to Koha news in staff
> client using elRTE editor from elrte.org which is BSD style licensed.
> Had to tweak its default css file a little for it to play with Koha.

I have a question - there is already one such editor used by Koha,
TinyMCE.  Which one should we prefer?  I don't have much of an opinion
either way (beyond a strong opinion that we shouldn't be using
*both*), but here's what some Googling turned up:

elRTE
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- built on and uses jQuery and jQuery/UI; since we're considering
jQuery/UI to replace YUI, there's some possible synchronicity here
- not yet packaged for Debian
- fairly young project

TinyMCE
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- packaged for Debian
- there's a supported jQuery variant
- been around for years

Since TinyMCE is used by only one page, if we decide to switch to
elRTE (or to something else entirely), it won't be a big deal.  Has
anybody done a direct comparison?

Regards,

Galen
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Galen Charlton
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