Looks promising! Might be an interesting additional editor candidate in Create (http://createjs.org/). Though, Create is MIT and the wysihtml5 library used by this is GPL, so the licenses are not compatible.
Create is the CMS UI shell around a WYSIWYG editor (well, potentially around other widgets you need like datepickers and choosers as well). We could use Mercury quite easily as another editor option.
Yep, we have an exception from them. But still, we only ship an integration plugin and Aloha Editor has to be installed separately. This way the whole Create repo is MIT-only.
It looks like the beginning of a very nice project!
I had a similar itch to scratch a few weeks ago when I wanted a nice simple editor for a project and modified the pagedown editor (the markdown editor from stackoverflow) to use bootstrap. Its here: https://github.com/samwillis/pagedown-bootstrap
I'm in the same situation. Got a hobby writing app slapped together that has a built in Markdown converter. I want normal people to use it but the idea is to focus on the writing, not the formatting so there's no buttons for WYSIWYG editing. I think I'm the right context Markdown only would work. In my situation I'm probably just going to throw up a short intro to Markdown tutorial for people who want to format their writing. It's okay in my case because the focus should be on words, not formatting and I have a hunch regular folks can learn Markdown within 20 minutes at most for the most part.
Nice presentation and looks to have real promise, but the source output looks just as bad as WordPress (unless it is just the Developer Tools). I see spans with inline CSS, empty divs and br's all over the place. It doesn't look very clean but if I am wrong please correct me.
Also, for practical use it needs indent controls for lists and there is a need to deal with links.
I hear that but I feel like there are some things in life we'll never be rid of and messy markup from WYSIWYG editors is just one of those things. I've never known any GUI tool to produce clean code whether it be GUI settings managers on Linux or WYSIWYG editors on the desktop or web.
Totally broken for me. Firefox has weird selection behavior (trying to italicize one word often catches the previous one, next one, whole sentence - or works normal), with Chrome the buttons don't work at all and with Camino (older Gecko engine), I can't even place the cursor.
Works better, but it has its share of weirdness. Just by clicking around on a "lorem ipsum" text it seems to work okay in Firefox (beta) and Camino (i.e. two Gecko versions), not at all in Chrome dev (clicking on italic/bold/h1 won't change anything) and if I select a line in Safari to make it a headline, it also applies the transformation to the following paragraph. If I then click "h1" again, everything is back to normal. A third click then works as intended, i.e. only the selected line is turned into a headline. From then on, this line works normal, but the whole game repeats itself if I do it with another line.
Advanced example works without bugs for me; my test has following HTML output ("So this is <b>the</b> thing <i>then</i>?<br><br><h1><span class="wysiwyg-color-red">Does it always work?</span></h1><h2>If it does then, great!</h2>Or, y'know, not bad.<br><br><ul><li>Yes</li><li>No</li><li>Maybe</li><li>So!</li></ul><h1>Yay it worked!!</h1>").
I think it's more a matter of context. In fact, I do believe in hand coding HTML. but this is a link for a simple wysiwyg editor. I would assume that this attracts mainly people that have _some_ need for a wysiwyg editor for _something_. So your demographic might be skewed inside this particular comment section?
I currently use fckeditor for all client projects and I really want an alternative, so this looks perfect. I know it's probably not on top of your features list but inserting images would be a great add-on, most of my clients need it.
It certainly is simple and beautiful but it also needs to be functional. I selected H2 and typed some characters, then backspaced to the beginning where it reverted to normal text but did not update the UI (still showed as H2).
Now THIS is what I was looking for. Simple. Clean. Integrates with bootstrap.
In my case I need even less functionality. Just bold and lists. Will try this one!
Very nice, although I'd say the icon for numbered lists could be better; right now it simply looks like a chunkier version of the bulleted list button.
ok I am excited for this. Looks great and is super clean. If you could add support for predefined styles in the drop-down along with links and simple image insertion it could handle 90% of my wysiwyg needs for projects.
Of all the wysiwyg editors out there it seems that most are just too bloated and the lightweight ones are just too "ugly".
Given what I can do in notepad, this doesn't quite do it for me. Yes, notepad is not what-you-see-is-what-you-get, but it doesn't take that much to create a HTML repel and that followed by alt-tab allows me pretty much every thing I want. I am uncomfortable with 'some one else's idea of a good time' when it comes to feature selection---no <hr/>? Etc. Good idea in general, just not for me, not yet.
For a lot of users, WYSIWYG is good, especially if it really integrates with the web page you're trying to edit (not a non-styled IFRAME like in the traditional CMS editors).
I also usually write in Markdown, but the latest breed of editors is starting to be good enough that I may be able to swap. And as for <hr />, that is usually configurable in the editor setup.
Disclaimer: I'm an author of one the new editors, Hallo.
I don't think anybody has written that plugin yet. Could you post a ticket? I'm spending some days on Hallo and Create next week, and so could possibly write one.
I remember the new Basecamp having the same problem just after they launched (it's gone/fixed now), maybe someone from their team could chime in on how they solved it?
Hmm ok, well the first two days after you launched the editor had some lag for me on Chrome on my MBA, especially the time from clicking the editor until it expanded and let me type would last 1 to 3 seconds and typing itself had some lag too. Anyone else had this problem?
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Currently we use Hallo (http://bergie.github.com/hallo/) by default, and Aloha Editor (http://aloha-editor.org/) with bundled integration.