Wysihtml
Dev tools
rich text editor
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
11 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Execution: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Easy to customise and replace the toolbar, useful for custom apps.
From 2 comments
I took part in a hackathon a few weeks ago and we needed a text editor that we could easily implement and customize. In particular, we wanted more control over the appearance of…
chrislgrigg on HNHaving had the (dis)pleasure of working with TinyMCE on a number of past projects this looks like a no-brainer. The only thing I'm not sure about is the use of…
fredkelly on HN
Open-source editor is a generous gift to the community.
From 1 comment
There are a lot of commercial options available too; I was reminded of the 'How I reverse-engineered Google Docs' discussion where the author recommended paying $200 for…
j_s on HN
Objections
Heavy at around 200k in size.
From 1 comment
"Fast and lightweight" is 200ko? We have so many choices when it comes to WYSIWYG. My favorite is https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor.
BenjaminN on HN
Formatting toggles and link removal have bugs and leave empty tags.
From 2 comments
A few feedback points, I suppose... # Clicking the "no-color" option in the text color-picker doesn't do anything. # Using the "remove" option on a link inserts a space as well…
kemayo on HNIt seems to suffer from tags being left over even after all their content has been deleted. Many editors seem to suffer this too.
LukeB_UK on HN
Forces Enter to create line breaks instead of paragraphs.
From 1 comment
> Unifies line-break handling across browsers (hitting enter will create <br> instead of <p> or <div>) This implies it isn't configurable and unfortunately - in my view this is…
andybak on HN
Seems to be an incomplete fork compared with CKEditor.
From 1 comment
Why fork something that is incomplete, unstable, has very limited test coverage, and doesn't tightly control the generated markup? CKEditor has had the ACF (Advanced Content…
WimLeers on HN
Requests
Ability to apply CSS classes easily in the editor.
From 1 comment
Something I'd really like is a way to expose CSS styles to the editor easily. One of the major problems I always run into is that my customers try to make things look like the…
otherusername on HN
Option to disable line breaks or sanitize output.
From 1 comment
Is there some way to sanitize the output? The prevalence of <br><br> is something I've always disliked about WYSIWYG HTML editors (something a markdown converter doesn't have to…
mhd on HN
Toolbar configuration via a JavaScript options object.
From 1 comment
Having had the (dis)pleasure of working with TinyMCE on a number of past projects this looks like a no-brainer. The only thing I'm not sure about is the use of…
fredkelly on HN
Questions
How to export the generated HTML.
From 1 comment
so after I create an html how do I "export" out the html code?
curiously on HN
What changed in the parser rules, such as named filters.
From 1 comment
I glanced through the parser rules, and it looks like you guys have implemented some kind of named filters in addition to the per-tag-per-attribute rule set from wysihtml5.…
titusjohnson on HN
Alternatives named
CKEditor
From 2 comments
Why fork something that is incomplete, unstable, has very limited test coverage, and doesn't tightly control the generated markup? CKEditor has had the ACF (Advanced Content…
WimLeers on HNI took part in a hackathon a few weeks ago and we needed a text editor that we could easily implement and customize. In particular, we wanted more control over the appearance of…
chrislgrigg on HN
Medium Editor
From 1 comment
"Fast and lightweight" is 200ko? We have so many choices when it comes to WYSIWYG. My favorite is https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor.
BenjaminN on HN
TinyMCE
From 1 comment
What issues did you have with TinyMCE? We recently moved away from wysihtml5 to TinyMCE and have been quite happy with the results thus far. The latest releases of TinyMCE have…
jwcooper on HN
Squire
From 1 comment
Check out FastMail's Squire editor, less than 12k mimicked and compressed - http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/08/squire-fastmails-rich-text-editor/
fanf2 on HN
Froala Editor
From 1 comment
FWIW, we've been pretty happy with the Froala Editor: https://editor.froala.com/
cstigler on HN
Redactor
From 1 comment
There are a lot of commercial options available too; I was reminded of the 'How I reverse-engineered Google Docs' discussion where the author recommended paying $200 for…
j_s on HN