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