WYSIWYG message board?

[philswallow]

I understand the concerns about bloatware - at least I think I do - slowing things down, making it clunky, etc?

I have just played with qwebeditor which looks okay (to me, not a programmer or anything like it). I have put the demo version on my site and find I can type text and format it, click the 'view source' button and cut and paste it ok.

Is there a way that such a thing could be used, as a pop up just to generate the text (with all the WYSIWYG whistles and bells) then automatically cut and paste the source code into a post?

Thanks for being patient with the ignorance of my questions - I am new to this stuff.

Phil

[Eko]

If I were the mod coder, I'd use their JS that allows you to select users to insert it, and spawning the WYSIWIG editor wouldn't be THAT hard either, or so I presume. So it's got MOD potential.

[chAos]

this

This appears to work in firebird now.

[philswallow]

Pardon my ignorance - what's 'firebird'?
Phil

[chAos]

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/" target="_blank

[Not Radio]

Another extraneous feature that has been worked into a comprise via the preview function.

[ossipetz]

well i dont know? some opensource cms come with such editors.

http://www.solmetra.com/spaw/demo/demo.php" target="_blank (ie)

http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/" target="_blank (ie)

http://demo.bitfluxeditor.org/" target="_blank (mozilla, netscape 7)

http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/demo.htm" target="_blank (cross browser)

thins is that the permissions must be inluded. if tables are allowed, image-upload, html, smilies etc.

and the signature-editing-box is different from the post-edit-box... these settings must be put into the admin-area somewhere. thats more work than on the first look i would guess. but 'dummy' people like these editors more as they are used to work like that in word and co.

[_chuck]

PhpBB 2.2 is XHTML compliant. The IE contenteditable control does not spit out XHTML, I would hate to think of the effort one would have to go through to make it so it does - or maybe I'm just lazy

I am currently messing around with a WYSIWYG editor for a little CMS system that I am building, if I have any luck I will try to make a mod for phpBB 2.0.6. Then again if I start now by the time I actually finish it 2.2 will be out.

[Charlie Argueta]

I believe that I should we a must and also there should be the ability to turn it off if the Admin wants it. Also it should have only the necesary to write a messege, not a circus banner.

Is not about to imitate the 'enemy' but the vB3RC already have a WYSIWYG

See Ya
Charlie

[Roberdin]

I saw that too on a friend's site - the buttons didn't work properly in my browser!

Mind you, neither do phpBB's, so I can't complain too much.