Wish: make TinyMCE editor's setting "Place in form without dialog" the default

[ajplopez]

I'm submitting a ...
[x] wish

...about
[x] edit experience / UI
[x] admin experience UI

Current behavior
The default for TinyMCE is "Dialog" where the user has to click into the editor and it expands vertically and fills the modal.

Expected behavior
By default, I wish the setting was set to "Place in form without dialog"

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions
Create a field and set it to TinyMCE. By default, the setting for "Dialog" is set.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
Speed. For Content Editors, it's way faster to quickly open up the edit modal and click into the TinyMCE editor and start editing immediately if they don't have to expand the thing. I end up having to switch the setting for every TinyMCE that I add because it's a better experience. I wish this setting was the default because it would save me time, and it would save my editors time.

Please tell us about your environment:
Any

• 2sxc version(s): all that use TinyMCE
• Browser: [all ]
• DNN: [all ]
• Language: [any/all]

Anything you would like to add

[iJungleboy]

I understand - what do others think about this? needs votes...

[jeremy-farrance]

Yes, I agree with this. I'd say 80+ percent of the time we go with "in the flow of the form" rather than the "zoom expando (shock)" approach.

Further, while you are in there, when using the "Dialog (expando)" version, I think there should also be an easy keyboard way to "return to previous dialog (back-arrow in top/left of dialog)" - right now it would seem logical to hit the Esc key, but that closes both dialogs and/or displays the "Discard/Save" at the bottom.

And then if you REALLY want to go overboard, in the field settings for WYSIWYG, when its "in form w/o dialog" we should also be allowed to set the number of vertical rows it uses.

Also, just kidding, I'll stop there. :)

[ajplopez]

I'll add in another comment about why I think this is important: I've found that most content types that I create use TinyMCE but it's for just a little bit of content. Sometimes I even use two editors for special content so editing two quickly one after another is fastest. Rarely do I ever need a WYSIWYG editor that is very tall. Most content is only a few paragraphs as the rest of the page is broken up into multiple modules anyway.

[iJungleboy]

@PagnoDunadan and @tvatavuk I think I agree with all these arguments here. Any counter-arguments from your sides?

[david-poindexter]

I agree 100% for what it is worth.

[SCullman]

Yes, please

[iJungleboy]

@PagnoDunadan let's do this - I sent you a task.

[PagnoDunadan]

Done 😉