jejacks0n
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11 years ago Mercury1 is deprecated, yes (as the readme on that branch would suggest).. you might want to wait for mercury2 before using it, in which case your timing might be bad. Mercury1 is still very useful -- though it sounds like you didn't bother reading the current docs.
Mercury2 is still under development (as the notice on that branch specifies), and I'm giving my free time for it. It's much nicer, and way easier to add functionality to and extend. No, it doesn't require an iframe, but it allows for one, as well you can use a shadow dom if the client supports it (it makes it invisible to the dom) -- also covered in the documentation.
The documentation does in fact outlines these things. If you're interested in how to use Mercury2 you may want to follow the steps for development outlined in the documentation. Start the server using rackup, and then browse to http://localhost:9292 to see where I'm at with current development -- there's also a place in the documentation where I direct you to the adding_functionality.coffee file in examples that shows how to integrate and extend Mercury2.
Just look into the examples path on mercury2 for how I'm using it while I'm developing it.
EisenbergEffect
I have so many questions...What is the state of Mercury? It looks abandoned. I stumbled on Mercury 2...is that ready yet? How do I use it? Where are the docs? Does it have to use an iframe? Can I use it in a single page app? Can I instantiate it on the fly? How do I even initialize it?
I've got some pretty awesome use cases for this editor...but after a lot of time wasted poking around, I can't seem to find answers to even the most basic questions. Here's something that would be very helpful:
Personally, I'm interested in non-iframe scenarios, since iframes don't work well on mobile or tablet and don't fit single page apps very well. So, I would need to know how to make Mercury not shove my whole UI into an iframe (which is what happended when I tried Mercury 1....resulting in breaking my entire application...and it did it just by including the script...without me initializing anything...which was very surprising.)
Please, please, please, just take 15 or 20 minutes to write something as an act of kindness...so that future developers don't waste hours bumbling around...resulting in nothing but confusion and frustration.