I've always wanted to port TinyMCE to jQuery -- you can fit _the entire jQuery_ into TinyMCE in _the same amount of code_ as their DOM Manipulation and Effects methods, (I've done the calculations, it might even make TinyMCE smaller!), and I bet it would be faster too. That being said, it unfortunately is not a priority in any of my projects, but the adapter is a great start.
It would definitely create a ton more (even accidental) jQuery converts, if jQuery was the base. It would be perfect, now to just find the time... Charles On Feb 21, 10:35 am, Spocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TinyMCE has an experimental adapter for jQuery this makes it a bit > smaller and replaces most of the core logic like the XHR, element > selector, dom functions etc. But even if we replaced those the package > is still quite large. The big parts are the UI elements, the DOM > Serializer and the overall editor logic so the size gain is not that > large but you get petter performance out of it. One thing would be to > add TinyMCE as an plugin for jQuery when you enable these adapters as > suggested that would be a powerful feature and take the best of both > worlds we will take that in to consideration. > > Some say that TinyMCE is too large I say that you can't make an editor > super small and still have the features required to make an XHTML > editor that generates decent output across all browsers. Some of the > so called "small editors" I've seen isn't even close to generating > correct output on for example IE. Font tags, br elements etc etc. Much > of the logic in TinyMCE is there for a reason to make a normalized > behavior across all browsers much like jQuery does it with the DOM > API. > > But feel free to checkout the adapter most of the logic is done by > Stefan Petre so he really deserves the credit for this one. Feel free > to add to it if you want and send in patches. It's available in the > tinymce dev package. > > On Feb 21, 12:45 pm, weepy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >http://batiste.dosimple.ch/blog/posts/2007-09-11-1/rich-text-editor-j... > > > On Feb 21, 9:20 am, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for pointing that out. > > > > But what I'm more concerned with is the fact you're downloading > > >TinyMCE, PLUS jQuery, PLUS the plugin so it's lot of stuff being > > > downloaded, and much of the code you actually have downloaded is just > > > duplicated effort. Both jQuery and MCE implement DOM selectors, > > > iterators and manipulators, both implement an XHR wrapper, both > > > implement event models, etc. What I was wondering has anybody taken > > > the MCE code, cut its DOM, XHR, etc > > > out and wired the jQuery ones in in their place? That'd eliminate > > > duplication of effort between the two, and result in a smaller > > > download size. > > > > On Feb 20, 5:27 pm, tlphipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Regarding using jquery to 'attach' the editor, there is a plugin that > > > > I believe does just > > > > that:http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/browse_thread/thread/d33630d... > > > > > On Feb 20, 10:33 am, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I've been usingTinyMCEto build a CMS that's also being built around > > > > > jQuery for other functionality, and I got to thinking, a lot of the > > > > >TinyMCEcode is simply replicating functionality that's already in > > > > > jQuery (DOM selectors. XHR, etc), so has anybody tried to remove this > > > > > stuff from the MCE codebase and use the jQuery implementations > > > > > instead? > > > > > > Additionally, how about using jQuery functionality to attach editors > > > > > to controls? For example $('textarea').tinyMCE() to attach editors > > > > > to all elements, or $('#myEditor').tinyMCEto replace just a specific > > > > > instance. You could use any CSS rule you wanted to determine where an > > > > > editor should be created in theory. > > > > > > And how about using jQuery UI to implement MCE's inline popup > > > > > windows? > > > > > > I do know there's WYM, which is built on jQuery, but that's very early > > > > > on in its development and also appears to have stalled.
