Research implementing Bootstrap WYSIHTML5

[sirlancelot]

http://jhollingworth.github.com/bootstrap-wysihtml5/

Looks like the simplicity would fit very well with Bolt.

P.S. I'm the same guy on Twitter ;-)

[pvankouteren]

Looks nice and clean. How does it compare to CKEditor in terms of features?

[bobdenotter]

After you've mentioned bootstrap/wysihtml5 on Twitter, i've looked into it. Some of my thoughts:

• It's definitely lightweight. This is a big plus.
• Its Look and feel would make it fit in with Bolt smoothly.
• It has problems when pasting from Word or other sources, because it doesn't strip the HTML. CKeditor strips all unwanted Word-HTML to clean, simple <p>'s and other basic, semantic HTML.
• It inserts unwanted elements in the HTML it generates: things like <span id="_wysihtml5-undo" class="_wysihtml5-temp"></span> and random <p>&nbsp;</p> blocks between paragraphs or lists.
• It doesn't have an 'view source' option. Which is problematic, especially considering the points about the odd HTML it inserts. I notice that wysihtml5 itself does support 'view source', so we could probably add that easily.
• The current version of wysihtml5 is '0.3.0', and was released over half a year ago. I'm worried about whether there will ever be a version that's considered to be stable, and at which timeframe. I wouldn't want to invest in a tool that is not going to be developed further.

All things considered, I think we should stick with CKEditor for the time being. The fact that is has been around for something like 10 years, does show that it's a mature product, and it's not going to be abandoned anytime soon.
The only issue with CKEditor that i currently have is its size: It's big, because it has way more features than we need. I've stripped most of these from the toolbar, but that means it's still in the code. Once CKeditor 4 gets closer to release, i'd like to look into its build scripts, to see if we can use that to compile a slimmer version.

[pvankouteren]

Yes, if there's no progression on the project and versioned < 1, I agree the tool should not be used in this project.

[sirlancelot]

Good points :)