Re: [Slashcode-general] Web Based WYSIWYG

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Jim Frey wrote:

> I'm starting to get use to the Slash Code, and honestly I'm amazed  
> at how much work went into what the code does -- thank you to all  
> who've been building this master piece <bows down>
>
> Now my question, has anyone ever thought of putting http:// 
> www.fckeditor.net into the story submissions? With my audience,  
> most don't know how to write HTML, and I've used FCKeditor in the  
> past with other projects -- it has it quirks, but overall is a  
> really nice app to be able to have non-coders write HTML.
>
> If no one has used it, anyone have suggestions on how to make it  
> work with Slash Code? You think I can just put it into the  
> templates somehow? (I'm just starting to read up on the Perl  
> templates now, so I'm not familiar with them.)
>
> -- I've got to write the CSS for my site next, but I'm lining  
> myself up for the next project...
>

Yes, I've thought about it. Even started messing with it a few times.  
It never amounted to much (lack of time, interest, etc...) We've used  
fck with a number of projects (perl/asp) but none were slash-related.  
But the fck editor works quite well, and it's free as in beer :)

I would do it as a plugin. I'd wrap it w/ javascript or something  
(and/or a user pref) so that it could be used in text areas with  
submissions, comment posts and even the story admin - though on the  
story admin you'd need 2 instances of fck (one for the intro, the  
other for the body).

It really shouldn't take you much to make this work I'd think. Edit  
the Slash::Submit plugin's displayForm;submit;default, modify the

	<textarea wrap="virtual" rows="[% user.textarea_rows ||  
constants.textarea_rows %]" cols="[% user.textarea_cols ||  
constants.textarea_cols %]" name="story">[% form.story |  
strip_literal %]</textarea><br>

w/ the FCK calls and then see how it goes.

  Shane