FCKeditor 2.5 released

[fredck]

This is the most important release since FCKeditor 2.0. It introduces Safari and Opera compatibility, but also new features that leverage the quality of FCKeditor to an upper level. You will find no similar solution on other products.

The most exciting feature is the new Style System. Now you have full control over every single formatting and semantic command available in the editor interface. Why having a limited interface to achieve a XHTML 1.1 experience? Enjoy a full featured editor, while well controlling how things work on it. No more <font> tags? Well, the system is so flexible that it is up to you to decide (but don't worry... no <font> tags by default .

Do you want more? What about blockquote support, the revamped Undo System, the Data Processor which makes it possible to handle non HTML data, and much more.

What's new?
http://www.fckeditor.net/whatsnew

Read first before upgrading:
http://wiki.fckeditor.net/Developer%27s_Guide/Upgrade

Online demo:
http://www.fckeditor.net/demo

[aaronvg]

Great work, developers! Congratulations!

[richard_d]

Great work, but the new style system really bloats the output. If you apply multiple formatting commands to the same selection, you get multiple "<span>...</span>" tags, whereas the previous system would produce a single "<font>...</font>" tag.

For example, select a single word, change the font, font size, colour and background colour.

In v2.4, the output from Firefox is:

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<font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#ffffff" style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Test</font>

(106 characters)

From IE7:

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<font style="background-color: #ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#ffffff" size="5">Test</font>

(98 characters)


In v2.5, the output from Firefox is:

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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Test</span></span></span></span>

(196 characters)

From IE7:

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<span style="background-color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #ffffff"><span style="font-size: large"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS">Test</span></span></span></span>

(174 characters)

[vaseem]

I have integrated FCK Editor 2.5 released in my Asp.net 2.0 application , Its working fine for Mozilla firefox but when I checked this on Netscape browser 8.0 then its not allowing to enter any text, even i am not able to put cursor in its edit area. After this I checked the demo on fckeditor.net using Netscape browser 8.0 but same result.

Can anyone explain this whether its compatible for Netscape browser or not.


Thanks
Vaseem

[beaker]

Hi guys,

The new Styles editor is great, although I need to disable this and use the original <Font></Font> tags for a compatibility with some mail clients. The Blurb for v2.5 says:

"The most exciting feature is the new Style System. Now you have full control over every single formatting and semantic command available in the editor interface. Why having a limited interface to achieve a XHTML 1.1 experience? Enjoy a full featured editor, while well controlling how things work on it. No more <font> tags? Well, the system is so flexible that it is up to you to decide (but don't worry... no <font> tags by default ."

How do I decide? Is there a flag/option somewhere to disable this, or is the work more substantial? If someone has an answer to this, could they let me know ASAP?

Thanks,
BeakZ

[dstalls]

Hey 2.5 is awesome!! Any idea on when we can see a version integrated with Wikimedia? The best part about this new version is the ability to upload an image while you are editing the page. This is similar to what Jotspot has but seems much more feature rich.

[robin78]

Hi,

thanks for this new version. I'm very interested too by the answer of the question of Beaker.

Because of the problem which Richard_d talk about.

Thanks in advance.

[fredck]

To have some overview of the new style system, sample14.html (actually sample14.config.js) in _samples/html is good starting point.

For example, to use the <font> tag for the font "face", you may change the editor configuration like this:

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FCKConfig.CoreStyles.FontFace =
   {
      Element      : 'font',
      Attributes   : { 'face' : '#("Font")' }
   } ;

This is the way to do that in a custom configuration file. In the original fckconfig.js file, you may change the FontFace entry in the FCKConfig.CoreStyles = {} block.

I haven't tested it, but it should give you some help to work on your customizations.

[kemmotar]

Ok, I've tested it and now it's creating multiples font tags if I do the same for Size and color

How can I revert it to the original <font> functionallity???

[nevdev]

The PHP developer's guide at http://wiki.fckeditor.net/ just takes me to an advert for drugs..

Is there anything essential I need to know for the new 2.5 version?