Question

Various pages on this site describe achieving wysiwyg functionality through a plug in and wysiwyg editor software.

Here is an example page.

WysiwygPlugin

However, wikipedia lists twiki as having wysiwyg functionality as a pre-installed plugin.

Which is correct? Is wysiwyg functionality achieved as a pre-installed plugin in the latest version of twiki?

If not does it work with fck editor or do I need to use your editors?

Thanks, Jim

Environment

-- JimOBrien1 - 12 May 2007

Answer

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Yes, it's preinstalled, but it's disabled. You need to enable WysiwygPlugin in configure to get it going. At the moment only Kupu is shipped, though there are integrations of WikiWyg, Xinha and TinyMCE in various states on workingness. If your budget stretches to money, then HardCore is also integrated, and works well.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 14 May 2007

Thanks CrawfordCurrie! It might be helpful to have a list of preinstalled plugins w. the latest version. It maybe helpful also to list plugins that are not included. I might start such a list since I am likely to try twiki.

-- JimOBrien1 - 14 May 2007

I think HardCore is now called Asbru Web Content Editor. It is a DHTML based WYSIWYG editor, see http://editor.asbrusoft.com/. I am not aware of an integration though.

-- PeterThoeny - 15 May 2007

Is there one considered the best? I'm just developing my website and I fear my members will not be comfortable with the "edit" as opposed to the WSIWYG format. I've found that using WSIWYG can screw up the code on a few main pages. Any ideas of which to use or how to prevent the Kupu plugin to work better?

-- RichardHobbs - 15 May 2007

Jim, there is a bug item to include a list of plugins in the release; but there has been very little activity on documentation bugs for quite some time, due to a lack of contributors in that area.

Richard, personally I favour TinyMCE; it's a lot cleaner than Kupu. I have on my to-do list a TinyMCEPlugin (not Contrib) that is a lot closer integration, but I just haven't had time to work on it (no sponsor). Yes, WYSIWYG can screw up hand-crafted TML, no doubt about it. But without a supporting sponsor, the bugs just have to remain open (unless someone else fixes them) - I just don't have time.

Peter, you are not aware of the integration of Asbru HardCore because my client didn't authorise a public release; but I'm sure they would let it go if there was a strong enough demand.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 16 May 2007

Hi all. I changed this to answered a while back. I think someone changed it back to asked. I wasn't sure if it should go back to answered... Thanks for everyone's help.

-- JimOBrien1 - 17 May 2007

OK, seems to be answered now.

-- PeterThoeny - 17 May 2007