Roadmap Questions

[jeremy]

Your friendly neighborhood magnet issue for "is X coming?" and "what about Y?"

Questions so far:

• More font attributes? Size, face, color, underline, …
• More block styles? Left/right/center text alignment, headings, …
• Other writing systems? RTL and other BiDi scripts
• Tables?
• Attachment helpers? Upload file, take camera photo, …
• Other editing modes? Markdown, raw HTML, …
• Other output formats? Markdown/Textile/…
• Integration with other frameworks? Angular/React/…
• API for internal HTML attachments? Support @mentions with e.g. At.js, do a lo-fi task list with [ ] checkboxes, …
• Drag to reposition attachments? Rather than cut/paste only.
• Paste handlers? e.g. for automatic embedding
• API to customize toolbar? Simpler than having to implement from scratch

[ollym]

@jeremy I'm against all of the above, purely because it makes implementing this #35 more difficult. Except for the underline part, markdown can do that.

[philwareham]

More font attributes? Size, face, color …

Depends if you want to give users control over styling. IMHO they shouldn't be given that amount of control - content and style should always be separate.

[aeons]

Support for headers? Just one or two levels would be great.

[rileydutton]

Tables seem pretty much imperative to allowing this for use outside of a basic comment form.

[souporserious]

@ollym would it be possible to just not allow that though if in a different mode? Something like rules that got applied to certain edit modes. I do see how this could get tedious though. Would be nice though to have a rich text editor with Trix.

[Arvinje]

It would be great to see some support for right-to-left languages. Even better: some support for the use of RTL words alongside LTR ones in a line.

[fusion2004]

I have an unfortunate feature request: being able to import, preferably via copy & paste, content from a Word document which would then be formatted into the equivalent structures in trix.

[javan]

@fusion2004 Have you tried copy+pasting from Word? If so, what does or doesn't work?

[fusion2004]

@javan I haven't tested extensively, but a quick test shows that lists are not being formatted correctly when you paste them in. They seem to be pasting over as just text with mid-dot and circle characters and spaces, as opposed to translating into actual lists.

The first two screenshots are the source document, the second two are the resulting formatting in trix: http://imgur.com/a/RDDoX

[joeljunstrom]

@fusion2004 one needs to do a lot of cleanup / normalization of the markup that you get from word. I guess this is probably best done as an explicit action with a filtering process even though it would be nice if it happened magically. (for reference take a peek at all the terrible things ckeditor does for paste from word functionality: https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor-dev/blob/master/plugins/pastefromword/filter/default.js)

[a-warner]

First off just wanna say this editor is awesome! I'm impressed by all that it does already. Some cool features I'd like to see:

• I'll throw my hat in the ring for headers
• Once an attachment is pasted into the editor, it would be awesome to be able to drag it around, e.g. dragging an image from below to above a paragraph (right now I have to cut and paste it which is a decent workaround but might be difficult for users to figure out)
• Some kind of handler/hook for "the user just pasted something" (e.g. medium js has a pasteEventHandler). I would use that to do things like e.g. replace a link the user pasted with an embedly iframe if it looks like something that might be an embed (like a youtube link)
• Ability to customize the toolbar to add my own extensions for headers and an "add an image" button before y'all get to it on the roadmap. Right now I'm hacking around inside Trix.config.toolbar.content with jQuery, maybe there is a better way already?

p.s. @ollym i got a decent trix html to markdown reverse thing going pretty quickly using https://github.com/domchristie/to-markdown and a little bit of post-processing (e.g. unwrapping <figure> tags and removing <figcaption> tags which make images look a little weird in markdown). I'd be happy to share my code with you (it's pretty simple though admittedly a bit hacky feeling).

[ollym]

@a-warner yea there are a load of html -> markdown processors but it's just not quite the real thing. Been looking for a simple markdown / html wysiwyg editor that just does html markup for a while. The main problem is wysiwyg products rapidly integrate styling which isn't markup, so supporting markdown becomes a bit of a 3rd party citizen in itself.

EDIT I really hope trix doesn't go down the same road

[sachinrekhi]

Would love the ability to insert check boxes in the editor. Check boxes plus the existing strike-through formatting enable you to have a very cheap to do list solution. Similar to what Evernote provides, for example.

[Gutem]

Wrap text intro

tags, so I can use pseudo-classes/elements as :first-child, :last-child, ::first-letter, ::first-line