I used to use FreeTextBox.com however that is a true server control.
I watched the demo for Yahoo's and it very elegant, but still has a large payload (60k ish), FCK is much more bloated, and the Cross-Browser is overly simple and breaks with any sort of popup blocker. The "Damn small" one is actually really small(18k or
gziped 3k), does enough, not as pretty as yahoo's but does require some php backend at the moment (though just for uploading files). But not a biggie, since I think that part can be disabled.
This is for a forum/comment box/anything I want a little extra markup with. Just looking for general thoughts
Dude, what's wrong with the FCKEditor? u can tweak it to be light AND u can minify the javascript to reduce the file size even further! it's also possible to just make it javascript based, so there's not asp.net controls, viewstate, blah blah etc. Don't
forget, if u have gzip compression set for your IIS, u'll get even more compression :)
how big is FCKEditor for you, right now .. that makes it too big?
I'm using FCKEditor in the MVC app I'm working on, and it's spectacular.
The nicest thing about it is that you can easily write custom backends for accepting file uploads, or browsing images stored in the database. And as other commentators mentioned, you can minimize the overhead as well.
Shiznitt
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Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 19, 2008 03:41 AM|LINK
I have been looking for a good/simple low bloat browser HTML editor that works with the MVC framework. I have found a couple javascript based ones:
I used to use FreeTextBox.com however that is a true server control.
I watched the demo for Yahoo's and it very elegant, but still has a large payload (60k ish), FCK is much more bloated, and the Cross-Browser is overly simple and breaks with any sort of popup blocker. The "Damn small" one is actually really small(18k or gziped 3k), does enough, not as pretty as yahoo's but does require some php backend at the moment (though just for uploading files). But not a biggie, since I think that part can be disabled.
This is for a forum/comment box/anything I want a little extra markup with. Just looking for general thoughts
nagir
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Re: Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 20, 2008 11:49 AM|LINK
Hi,
Take into account Ext JS too.
Here is the sample page.
But consider: it is pretty heavy library and is GPL licensed.
Cheers.
nagir
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Re: Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 20, 2008 11:53 AM|LINK
Sorry. Here is the link: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/form/dynamic.html
pure.krome
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Re: Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 20, 2008 01:12 PM|LINK
Dude, what's wrong with the FCKEditor? u can tweak it to be light AND u can minify the javascript to reduce the file size even further! it's also possible to just make it javascript based, so there's not asp.net controls, viewstate, blah blah etc. Don't forget, if u have gzip compression set for your IIS, u'll get even more compression :)
how big is FCKEditor for you, right now .. that makes it too big?
reference: http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x/Developers_Guide/Deployment
Endif
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Re: Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 20, 2008 01:45 PM|LINK
VinBrown
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Re: Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 20, 2008 05:05 PM|LINK
There's a JQuery plugin - jquery.wyswyg - that I've used. Seems to work well.
alivemedia
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Re: Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 20, 2008 06:21 PM|LINK
FCKEditor I think is the only one that gives you a really nice and easy way to upload and browse images on the server, the browse images is huge.
jmcqk6
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Re: Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 21, 2008 12:47 PM|LINK
I'm using FCKEditor in the MVC app I'm working on, and it's spectacular.
The nicest thing about it is that you can easily write custom backends for accepting file uploads, or browsing images stored in the database. And as other commentators mentioned, you can minimize the overhead as well.
kroenecker
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Re: Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 23, 2008 08:10 PM|LINK
Emacs. Enough said.
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Re: Rich Text Editor for MVC?
May 24, 2008 02:38 PM|LINK
Emacs? In javascript? Is that a joke?
One thing I don't like about Fckeditor is that it's 300+ USD per website :'(
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