just tried this and it was pretty easy to setup and use

http://www.railslodge.com/plugins/1146-yui-rich-text-editor
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/YAHOO.widget.SimpleEditor.html

scott
ekohe.com

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yea, unfortunately my target audience don't know textile and I don't
> think I could push them into it...  It does seem like a good
> alternative otherwise, though...
>
> On Oct 31, 2:56 pm, Ryan Felton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ah, I see.. I've used RedCloth and textile-editor-helper for this. We
>> did use TinyMCE in the past and it was a pain.
>>
>> I've cleaned up the textile-editor-helper plugin and put the code up
>> on github:http://github.com/felttippin/textile-editor-helper/tree/master
>>
>> I've also heard good things about this 
>> one:http://github.com/pelargir/textile_toolbar/tree/master
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Ken wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> Thanks for the response.  In this particular situation I don't think
>> the syntaxhighlighter will help because nobody will be posting code
>> snippets on this blog (it's part of an application that's not for
>> developers).  I'm not familiar with the white list plugin so I'll
>> check it out.
>>
>> Thanks, Ken
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2:21 pm, Ryan Felton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Assuming you're not using wordpress as your blogging 
>> > engine:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/screenshots/
>>
>> > I'd say check out the libraryhttp://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
>> > .
>>
>> > I've used the white list 
>> > pluginhttp://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/white_list/
>> >    and added table, th, tr, and td tags to it.
>>
>> > Ryan
>>
>> > On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Ken Hudson wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>>
>> > I'm working on a new application that will need a blog.  The basics
>> > for creating a blog are well documented all over the web and are
>> > pretty easy and straightforward.  However, most of what you find is
>> > very simplistic - blog entries and comments just consisting of simple
>> > text, for example.  In my application, I will need to allow blog posts
>> > to have at least some HTML markup (e.g., links, unordered lists, and
>> > in particular images).  The same goes for blog comments.  Does anyone
>> > have any suggestions on how to go about doing this?  RedCloth would
>> > appear to be one alternative but my users aren't going to know Textile
>> > and there's no way I can expect them to learn it.  I need to balance
>> > my requirements with a healthy concern for cross site scripting (XSS)
>> > and I'm unsure how to proceed.  I'm very curious how sites 
>> > likehttp://www.rubyinside.com
>> >   accomplish this.  I would greatly appreciate any advice!
>>
>> > Thanks, Ken
> >
>

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