More IE Support

[volomike]

I rather like this project a lot, although it's still in its infancy. Have you considered more IE support as well? When I mean IE, I mean IE7 and up. IE is about 90% of the problem with these rich editors.

Some advice:

• Consider using some snippets of this code to add a resizer gripper at the bottom of the rich editor control:

http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/TextAreaResizer

• Here's the API docs on Mozilla and IE execCommands, in addition to a (slightly stale) doc on quirks in the various browsers:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533049(v=vs.85).aspx https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rich-Text_Editing_in_Mozilla http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand.html

• Find out what works and doesn't work on Android and iOS mobile/tablet devices with this rich editor and re-implement a minimalist version for those platforms. Simply detect the "mobile" keyword in the user agent -- keep it simple.
• Google Gmail's richeditor is something that's improved in the trenches. Google then works those improvements back into the Closure library because they use Closure to create that rich editor. Closure compiles down to Javascript, although it's fat and ugly. You might want to look at this source for clues on how to improve IE support. Don't use Closure of course -- because it's fat and ugly, not lean like jQuery -- but do check out the source to see if it can provide clues on how to best implement something for IE support.

http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/index.html http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog/demos/editor/editor.html

Hope this helps, and good luck on this project.

[volomike]

You can also check out the CLeditor project here:

http://premiumsoftware.net/cleditor/

[ssmelov]

Thank you for your comments! I will review your suggestions and let you know what the results are!

[volomike]

Sergey, I thought I'd give your little project here a little boost. As well, I plan to fork soon and suggest minor improvements so that you can consider them.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110745990702341469050/posts/e5qehYwwNTQ

I hope you can view the link above? If not, let me know and I'll find a way to add you in to read that. You may need to create a Google Plus account. Basically I was hyping this project to lots of jQuery users on Google+, and asking others to assist you. Another thing I've done is suggest to the jQuery UI team that they consider this as a starting point for a component that ultimately might get added to the jQuery UI framework.

Love, love, love this thing. It's a shame that browsers don't implement rich editors consistently, that Microsoft didn't fix their quirks with it as far back as 2007, and that jQuery didn't already have this in their UI framework. I mean, everyone who's a decent coder uses some sort of rich editor in their projects eventually.