Is TinyMCE still the best option for WYSIWYG?

[kuau]

I created a site a couple of years ago that allows users to submit events. At the time, the best way to add WYSIWYG to the textarea fields was to use TinyMCE. I just noticed that it is no longer working so, before I fix it, I was wondering if there is currently a better way to add WYSIWYG to textarea fields or should I update the TinyMCE? As I recall the TinyMCE was huge.

Thanks!

[Beverleyh]

I still prefer TinyMCE - I'm just waiting for v3.4 to come out of beta mode so all the IE9 bugs have been fixed.

If you're only using a few functions on your WYSIWYG toolbar you can strip the vast majority of plugins out of the plugins folder and that will reduce the overall size of it considerably :)

For example, with a setup like this;

tinyMCE.init({
mode : "exact",
elements : "mytextarea",
width : "100%",
height : "250",
theme : "advanced",
convert_urls : false,
theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,|,bullist,numlist,|,undo,redo",
theme_advanced_buttons2 : "",
theme_advanced_buttons3 : "",
theme_advanced_buttons4 : "",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top"
});
You can totally empty the plugins folder, delete the examples and themes you dont need and get it down to about 750kb.

[kuau]

Just what I needed to know. Thanks very much! :)

I haven't tried IE9 yet. How is it? I'm always a bit nervous using the latest IE in case sites I am working on look OK in it but not in previous versions. I'm hoping MS will push the upgrade once it is stable.

[Beverleyh]

I'm not using IE9 yet either but I plugged it into IETester and have been testing websites with it that way: http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/IE9Preview

Hope that helps

[jscheuer1]

Sorry, I have nothing on small rodents (tinyMCE), except no WYSIWYG editor can really afford to ignore IE 9.

IE 9 looks very nice. I have the current release candidate running under Win 7. I also have a Virtual PC running IE 8, 7, and 6 under Win XP, so I pretty much have the testing spectrum covered for IE.

It should be interesting to note however that relatively speaking very few use IE 6 now. Once 9 comes out, unless MS screws it up somehow, 7 will probably die as well, it already is, perhaps 8. 9 is so much like other browsers, it's scary. MS is obviously trying to regain dominance. If 9 continues to perform as well as other modern browsers, they just might have something there.

See:

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

especially the second graph on their trends page:

http://www.w3counter.com/trends

If that holds true when 9 comes out, the long global nightmare of designing for IE may finally be nearing its end.

[Sandra89]

Hi)
After installing the JS aggregator, TinyMCE stopped working, and I noticed that there were a few new wysiwyg editors. Should I go through the trouble of figuring out how to get TinyMCE back or is there a better option?

Thanks:D