Rich text editor

[Steven Ringo]

Hi all,

I have a client that wants to send e-mails with specific instructions to users.

Although similar to a mailing list with merge fields etc, the mails are sent to one user only after actions are completed (else we could use Mailchimp etc).

The mails are HTML and there will be base template with most of the structure and css set up.

The body of the mail needs to be customised, and needs to have a rudimentary set of formatting, but without going into a full WYSIWYG editor.

Markdown or similar is not really an option.

I remember from years ago the nightmares we used to have with editors like TinyMCE, and (what was then called) FCKeditor.

Does anyone have any experience with a decent browser-based rich text editor, that's not an abomination to use? Or have any other recommendations on what might be another way to do this (perhaps using a service, if such exists).

Thanks,

Steve

[Daryl Manning]

Mercury editor. Try it.

http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/Yk4CB99ey9UJ.
To post to this group, send email to rails-...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceani...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.

[Matthieu Stone]

Hi Steve,

I've had great results with mercury editor => https://github.com/jejacks0n/mercury

You can define which areas you want to be editable.

rgds,

- matt.

--

[Steven Ringo]

Guys,

Mercury looks great. I will give it a go. Thanks.

Steve

[Denny]

Mercury is great and jejacks0n is smart guy!

-- 
Denny
Sent with Sparrow

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group.

[Michael Pearson]

Hi,

Any other recommendations?

I'm in a similar position, but Mercury is HTML5-only, and many of our users will be on IE7 or IE8.

We're currently using CKEditor (the successor to FCKEditor)

--
Michael Pearson

[Michael Gall]

I've been really happy with wymeditor. It doesn't feel like it's got the excess baggage that some of the other wysiwig editors have.


Cheers,


Michael

Checkout my new website: http://myachinghead.net
http://wakeless.net

[markbrown4]

I think I've used all of them at one point or another and have even
written my own.

wymeditor is great if you don't need that many features.
ckeditor is good if you need to do more heavy lifting.


Mark.

On Feb 9, 8:32 pm, Michael Gall <mich...@wakeless.net> wrote:
> I've been really happy with wymeditor. It doesn't feel like it's got the
> excess baggage that some of the other wysiwig editors have.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Michael Pearson <mipear...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Any other recommendations?
>
> > I'm in a similar position, but Mercury is HTML5-only, and many of our
> > users will be on IE7 or IE8.
>
> > We're currently using CKEditor (the successor to FCKEditor)
>

> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Denny <denny2tr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>  Mercury is great and jejacks0n is smart guy!
>
> >> --
> >> Denny

> >> Sent with Sparrow <http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig>

[Mike Williams]

On 08/02/2012, at 9:09 AM, Steven Ringo wrote:

I remember from years ago the nightmares we used to have with editors like TinyMCE, and (what was then called) FCKeditor.

Does anyone have any experience with a decent browser-based rich text editor, that's not an abomination to use?

I've integrated CKEditor several times, and been pretty happy with it.  On my current project we've explored the limits with a custom skin, custom toolbar, and some custom toolbar controls.  None of it gave us particular trouble.

We actually started with WYMeditor on this project, but it proved unreliable, particularly on recent versions of IE. It just doesn't seem to get enough maintenance love.

-- 

cheers, 

Mike Williams

[Daniel]

Unfortunately design mode / contenteditable (which most rich editors
use) results in markup which is awful on most browsers.

That can be OK for html emails but it's worth being aware of.

- Daniel