Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Current recommended Richtext editors?

We have switched mostly to ckeditor4, which is supported in OpenACS via the package richtext-ckeditor4. It is actively developed and works nice on mobile devices.

[1] http://ckeditor.com/

In versions up to OpenACS 5.9.0 [1], the rich-text editors were (a) munged into acs-templating (+master templates) and (b) part of acs-core.

(a) was a problem, since there were 3 different interfaces depending on the editor; OpenACS 5.9.0 has a pluggable interface, needs no special master-template integrations and is more extensible without hacking in the core.

(b) is/was a problem with debian bundling of acs-core, since debian prohibits among many other issues minified files. By throwing the editors out of core, many of the issues are gone, and the rich-text editors can be obtained e.g. via "install from repository".

Yes, there is no standard integration of rich-text editors in general, every rich-text editor has a slightly different interface (using css classes, IDs, etc.), supporting different modes (inline editing) and or plugins (e.g. image selectors, etc). Having these in separate packages makes the setup more flexible and it can be more easily tailored by custom installations (who have the need to use different editor versions, etc.).

-g

[1] https://openacs.org/xowiki/openacs-todo

Just to suggest another richtext Editor. I've recently use trix[1] and it seems to work really fine. It could be a good choice for OpenACS

Its output is HTML code so to save as plain text perhaps a good idea would be use markdown[2]

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[1] https://github.com/basecamp/trix
[2] https://getsolid.io/blog/trix/