[development] HEAD broken for a few hours tonight

2009-05-24 Thread Angela Byron
Really sorry, folks. :\ I made the fatal error of jumping the gun before waiting for testing bot results on a "trivial" patch http://drupal.org/node/471234 which just so happened to break the installer. Oops. :\ I'm pretty sure I reset the statuses of all the issues that were mistakenly "ne

Re: [development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

2009-05-24 Thread Karoly Negyesi
In a much lower voice, have you seen that Steef largely stopped contributing? Guess why: mostly because the old small community feeling of Drupal is waning and there is too much "clients" around. Think.

Re: [development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

2009-05-24 Thread Karoly Negyesi
If we were here to satisfy clients with core then all the core files would be writeable by Apache so you can just update them from a browser. We do not do that. However, we DO recognize the need for that and I have spec'd out somewhat Plugin Manager which Joshua Rogers has written as a GSoC project

Re: [development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

2009-05-24 Thread Bill Fitzgerald
On a side note, I'm a huge fan of the WYSIWYG API ( http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg ). Bravo to this project and others in recently moving the third party code over to "|sites/all/libraries/" |it should make future Drupal upgrades much easier to manage. Second the kudos for the WYSIWY

Re: [development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

2009-05-24 Thread Thomas Zahreddin
Hi, fckeditor does a good job: http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x/Users_Guide/Common_Tasks/Cut% 2C_Copy_and_Paste fckeditor has a paste from word option, Point 3 on the website best Thomas Zahreddin

Re: [development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

2009-05-24 Thread Bryan Ruby
Ryan Cross wrote: Do you know of any other site or WYSIWYG editor that handles M$ word better than what's available? I don't think there is one, otherwise I'm sure it would be quite popular. I'd be happy to be proven wrong though. I just don't want people chasing a mythical "perfect" wysiwyg edi

Re: [development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

2009-05-24 Thread andrew morton
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Walt Daniels wrote: > My sentiments, exactly! If the users can't use it without problems they will > leave you site for one that is more user friendly. Without problems means > whatever ugly hacks under the covers are needed to really strip Word junk. > They don't

Re: [development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

2009-05-24 Thread Kathleen Murtagh
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Ryan Cross wrote: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Walt Daniels > wrote: > > My sentiments, exactly! If the users can't use it without problems they > will > > leave you site for one that is more user friendly. Without problems means > > whatever ugly hacks un

Re: [development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

2009-05-24 Thread Ryan Cross
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Walt Daniels wrote: > My sentiments, exactly! If the users can't use it without problems they will > leave you site for one that is more user friendly. Without problems means > whatever ugly hacks under the covers are needed to really strip Word junk. > They don't

Re: [development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

2009-05-24 Thread Walt Daniels
My sentiments, exactly! If the users can't use it without problems they will leave you site for one that is more user friendly. Without problems means whatever ugly hacks under the covers are needed to really strip Word junk. They don't understand the need to use paste from Word (in tinyMCE) and it