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Ian Ward
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Ian co-founded Development Seed in 2003 and has been involved in everything from business and project management to module development and spraying the fire extinguisher on the server farm (that last one is figurative, thankfully).

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Making TinyMCE Better
Nov 22, 2005
by Ian Ward

We're investing some research and development into TinyMCE and are collecting all the complaints from our clients and anyone else who uses it, as well as comparing to the reported issues on Drupal. We're talking about usability issues, not failure for it to load or run in the first place. Please reply in a comment or send us an email with any complaints or issues you have with TinyMCE that are not on the list below. We'll let you know if we're able to improve anything and post what we find.

Documented TinyMCE issues:

-paragraph / line break inconsistencies
(if you have this issue, please explain it in more detail)

-bolding of the entire content when bolding single element

I installed a pre-forms API upgrade version of TinyMCE on Drupal 4.6/4.7 running on the TinyMCE 2.0RC. Until you really use it, it's hard to know what will make it better. Then, once you use it, you use it or get used to it in a way slightly different from another person. What if it just worked right for everyone?

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4 Comments
I have some problems in
Dec 22, 2005
Kancha thapa

I have some problems in using TinyMCE if you could help,

1)i cannnot validate if the textarea is empty
2)i want to remove some of the feature from the advanced theme. How could I?
3)i have added the editor in a page which causes the page to focus() on the editor and unable to view the banner of my site.

standard javascript event handlers
Dec 15, 2005
Greg Lloyd

While I think this is something that should be on the TinyMCE site instead of here I will go ahead and say it.

It would be nice if the standard javascript event handlers could be added to textareas or what ever element that is going to become a TinyMCE edit and have those events be fired when they should. For instance I like to disable submit buttons until something actually changes in the form or it is complete, very hard to do now.

TinyMCE Improvements
Nov 24, 2005
matt westgate

Being one of the authors of tinymce.module, I'm very interested in your findings.

Would love to work on this
Nov 22, 2005
Boris Mann

*Please* at the very least match this up with existing issues in the TinyMCE issue queue: http://drupal.org/project/issues/tinymce

There are lots of people interested in making TinyMCE better, and if we coordinate, we can all work on different bits of it, rather than duplicating efforts.