Comments on: Poll: WYSIWYG vs Plain Text Box?

By: Montie

Montie — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:00:57 +0000

Well Stinlgar, thanks for your comment. It’s better late then never … I didn’t really get as may comments and feedback as I would have liked but any bit helps! Thanks for all the info and the support!

If I remember correctly, TinyMCE has an upload/browse feature already in it but I’m not sure if it can do file uploads too. And even if it doesn’t have an upload/browse feature, I’d have to learn how to plugin to the TinyMCE toolbar … not that big of a deal … I just hope all my work on FilePress doesn’t go a bust!

By: stilgar

stilgar — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 03:07:07 +0000

A bit late maybe, but I just came across this post…

I’m using the standard textarea, in combination with my markup-selecter plugin. Sometimes I like to use Markdown, sometimes BBCode. Markdown is practical for technical documents, BBCode is nice and easy for simpler posts. I also use some homegrown tags to create indexes, download sections and the like. I don’t use the quicktags very often.

In WP1.6 we will be able to choose between the textarea and the TinyMCE. I think it’s a good thing to have a wysiwig editor, because it’s pretty hard to explain Markdown and the like to non-technical users. And I think it’s really good that we will have the choice, because a) there are technical users b) it doesn’t work with all browsers (Opera for instance)

I’m facing the same problem as you with my Coppermine Integration plugin. It adds a bar with the most recent pictures under the quicktags, and you can insert the pictures by clicking on them. I will eventually have to make it work with TinyMCE, but the fact is doesn’t work with Opera is a stopper for me…

Thanks for the wp-smileys plugin btw

By: Montie

Montie — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:10:55 +0000

Markus, no rush and don’t worry about it. When and if you can that would be wonderful … but if not it’s all good! Thanks for your feedback Philippe and Markus … wish more would post a comment …

By: Markus

Markus — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:25:28 +0000

Hi,
I am using the standard plain text box with quicktags, smileys and filepress, as you maybe can remember.

BTW: please be patient with me, I will do as I have you written (send a letter), but I at the time I find not the time…

By: philippe

philippe — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:41:17 +0000

hi, i am using the standard plain text box with quicktags. i added some new quicktags for my personal use. sometimes i use also bloggar but i don’t need it really. i heard that there is going to be a wysiwyg editor integrated in the new wp 1.6. i had a look at it and if will be nice.
cheers,
philippe
http://www.swingcheese.de