Version 2.0 screenshot teaser.....

[dooley]

You make good software Smiff.
http;//clro.ca is a site I developed for a friend using your software and it's been working great.
Are all your extra blades a part of the core now?

[smiffy6969]

Hi,

I like your theme.

At present there is no add ons for the new version, it is very much WIP at present. A lot of the add ons for the version 1 will be worked into the main code for version one such as multiple menus, SEF url, contact form, they will appear in the main system in some way.

There will be others that will not be present, but I have no hard and fast decisions on this either way at the moment.

more teasers coming, I am working on a custom editor, with custom tools, so no more issues on which editor to choose, integration with images and other stuff.

my main aim for this version is simplicity.

smiffy

[smiffy6969]

Editor, this is a custom editor I will be writing, so you will have to let me know what features you would like it to have, It will not be as full on as some of them out there, just enough to get the job done.

smiffy

[StaticExtasy]

Some pretty standard features I use is

alignment ( left, center, right)
color
size
hyper linking
font weight (bold, italicized, underline)

You could go all out and add some "bb code" style to it like most forums, since a lot of people are accustomed to bb code by now.

another thought, add drop down for setting something to H1 H2 H3 etc...

[markfoz]

Since you will already be extensively using jquery i would suggest this: http://premiumsoftware.net/cleditor/ it is the tiniest i have seen, and very handy and easy to add please keep/add blade pack options for tinymce and also ckeditor also for those with more advanced needs. I think that would save you some time whilst also keeping the footprint down, maybe a custom image editor linked in with that suggestion would be good. Please if you use that cleditor allow us to jhave an 'editor_css.css' sheet also. so what displays in the editor is exactly or near as as we would see on the site

[mathias]

Will we be able to port our existing websites to the new version easily?

[smiffy6969]

Hi all, back from hols.....

I like the suggestions, all sound good. I also like the sound of the jquery editor, that would save a lot of time and effort so I will check it out.

As far as porting old sites over..... I will give as automated a solution as I can, but due to how the new version will work, there will also be some manual steps. At the very worst there will be a guide to porting over old sites.

Will expand on this more later.

Smiffy.

[smiffy6969]

Hi,

I have just took a look at that jquery editor, I like it a lot.

It is also MIT open source so I would be more than happy to use it.

One but though, and a big one. It does the same as any other editor, it writes horrible mixed markup and style html, I absolutely hate this, plus it breaks w3c.

I may fork this editor, and put my spin on it, instead of mashing in styling in the html, why not just have a stylesheet with the styling in it, and use classes in span tags to markup the code.

It would be much much cleaner to view, and would keep w3c happy and be simpler to alter your page (think altering one style file and not each page).

I am going to try and bend this editor to my will, I will see if I can alter the styling, and also add in file browsing for images.

smiffy

[Adminer]

Hi,

I have just took a look at that jquery editor, I like it a lot.
I am going to try and bend this editor to my will, I will see if I can alter the styling, and also add in file browsing for images.
smiffy

Hi!

I have tested one nice looking jquery filemanager.
elFinder: http://elrte.org/elfinder
So, if you have a time to look there... It's working, I have tested it with an integration with RazorCMS ckEditor.

They have advanced editor with jquery too: http://elrte.org/ but a little big;-)
IMHO, good idea is to have a lot of editors and filemanagers - so if we have many combinations - an atacker have no easy life to hack our site (a lot's of hack's are by bad security in filemanagers and by the holes in used editors).

Regards

[markfoz]

Hi,

I have just took a look at that jquery editor, I like it a lot.

Its cool isnt it found that by chance a while back, I think it would definately be useful and if you can improve it with proper image/file management and better markup - great, one of the things i like about this particular editor is it is absolutely tiny and very simple to add, and totally inuitive as to how it works, previously the wysiwyg editors would always take up a large amount of space of any cms/framework, ive used this simple jquery one on a few small projects of myself where basic html is needed.I think a style based solution would be good - some way to be able to choose styles from the editor (like tiny mce does from its editor css sheet) rather than create a lot of horrible inline html markup is also a great way for this to work, as your suggestion.