[geeklog-devel] IKS / Aloha editor

[cordiste]

Some plugins use the advanced editor, we must be careful to preserve
some compatibility with this one.

::Ben

2010/12/13 Tom <websitemaster at cogeco.net>:
> If we went with the Aloha Editor at some point I assume the Aloha Editor
> would become and option under a stories post mode on the story admin editor
> form. If "in story editing" is enabled on the site, Admins would have an
> extra option of editing stuff on the fly as you tested.
>
> How does Aloha handle embedded items in the stories like autotags, images,
> youtube videos, etc? Does that content stay in place and is not editable?
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
> [mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Dirk Haun
> Sent: December-12-10 4:31 PM
> To: Geeklog Development
> Subject: [geeklog-devel] IKS / Aloha editor
>
> For those who haven't seen it yet, I've posted a report from the IKS
> workshop in Amsterdam on geeklog.net yesterday:
>
>  http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/iks-workshop-amsterdam
>
> Thoughts and comments on how to proceed, i.e. whether or not to "go
> semantic", are very much welcome.
>
>
> What I didn't mention in that post is that I got a chance to sit down with
> some of the guys from the Aloha editor, <http://aloha-editor.org/>, who were
> also present in Amsterdam, and tried integrating it into Geeklog. We got to
> a "proof of concept" point where it let you edit articles, but actually
> saving the changes was still missing (that should be about a day's work left
> to do).
>
> I really like the approach of this editor - it lets you edit your content in
> place. Just today, I made a longish post on my blog and when it was
> published, I spotted a typo. So I had to get back into the editor, scroll
> down to locate the typo, fix it, save, and re-read. With Aloha, I could
> simply have clicked into the article, right on the word with the typo, and
> would have been able to fix it there.
>
> This is, of course, quite a different approach than what we have right now
> and would require a couple of changes all over the place. I talked things
> through with Norbert Pomaroli (one of the Aloha authors) and I think I have
> a pretty good idea of what we would have to do for a proper integration.
>
> The only downside right now: Image uploading is not yet possible with Aloha
> (but it's being worked on). Since it would be a while before we would have
> finished an integration anyway, it may be ready just in time. I realize
> image upload is probably the most popular use case for FCKeditor in Geeklog.
>
> As everybody knows, I'm not exactly a fan of FCKeditor ;-) The alternatives
> I have seen so far didn't really convince me either. The approach that Aloha
> uses differs from all those other editors and I have to say that I like it.
>
> I could imagine using it when it's integrated into Geeklog. That's probably
> saying something ;-)
>
> Comments, impressions, likes / dislikes?
>
> bye, Dirk
>
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