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1. We want to make sure that we're hitching ourselves to a project that us being actively maintained and developed.
2. Are there major annoyances we'd like to walk away from, or capabilities we'd really like to not have to implement ourselves?
- GUI for adding links and inclusions - we'll probably have to code this ourselves, and definitely want to feel more certain about what editor we're using before we do so.
- offer multiple markups in addition to GUI (github's wiki may be basic, but they offer more than half a dozen markups!)
- ??
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We'll have to migrate customizations we've made, which include:
- connectipedia's red and yellow styling
- ??
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http://geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors - chart comparing many editors. The only three I saw that are widely compatible and not proprietary are Cross-Browser RTE (Creative Commons license, but you have to pay to get the code?), Ekit (Java, and the demo gave me a popup requesting access :-P), and Xinha (no development since May last year?).
Here's a 2009 chart comparing a few editors that Drupal can use: http://drupal.org/node/208456
As for activity, that first chart has TinyME as "abandoned", but their github page looks reasonably active https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce I suppose it would still be a good idea for someone to hang out in their developer forum a bit and see if the new team has their heads on right, but frankly I'm not seeing any viable alternatives. A quick search for a Ruby-coded HTML editor turned up nothing. --John Abbe
Aha, Xinha just hasn't released in a while, but http://trac.xinha.org/timeline suggests there's active development.
--John Abbe.....Sun Feb 27 10:01:21 -0800 2011
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