aloha-editor
Items mentioned on 12/12/12 irc with deliminator
easier integration
Looks like most up to date branch of aloha editor is "aloha-modular" branch
relevant issue
an example
- Essentially, you just include the script tags. You don't need to know anything about requirejs any more
- requirejs is still works
- Need to use jqueryui 1.9 or up
- Plugin files should be compiled into aloha.js, and should not have to be loaded lazily
- You compile it by customizing the build profile in build/aloha/build-profile-common-extra.js
- directions on how to build 4.3 Customized Builds
- The simplest thing is to copy the existing build profile somewhere in your own project
- Then edit it and only include the plugins that you need to keep the size as small as possible
- you also have to adapt the appDir url in the build profile and also startFile and endFile
- otherwise the paths are incorrect since the build profile is in a different folder
How does one use custom language files with plugins?
- i18n should just work
- If you have a german browser, the german i18n files are downloaded by requirejs
- if you have an english browser, the english files are downloaded
- you can also set the locale option in the build profile to compile a specific language into the output file
- i18n.t()
- You can use the requirejs i18n loader plugin
- We have that implemented, but I believe we use a function tr('Words') to do our translations
- For our plugins we just execute tr() throughout the plugin
Line breaks
- We need a way to be able to use p OR br tags depending on the situation. If we updated the code to know when to use one over the other, there is no problems with line heights. needs confirmed
- http://aloha-editor.org/guides/functional_description.htmlI
- There is no out-of-the box functionality to just flip a switch and have brs inserted - pull requests welcome
- Location in code: markup.js preProcessKeyStrokes and processShiftEnter and processEnter
- It should end up in engine.js with execCommand('insertlinebreak') and execCommand('insertparagraph') for both behviours
contenteditable="false"
- It should propagate to all descendants of the editable, until contenteditable="true" is encountered, which again should propagate to all descendants until contenteeditable="false" is encountered
- in aloha you would solve the problem of having blocks of non-editable content inside an editable with the block plugin
- http://aloha-editor.org/guides/plugin_block.html
- The second link has a simple demo with a few blocks
- in the demo you can insert custom "tags" which have been implemented with the block plugin
- At wikidocs.com The toolbar is completely custom but with static HTML embedded in the page so, we don't use Aloha's out-of-the-box UI at all
- The code we use is available on the dev-ui-a-la-carte branch
- It's relatively simple
- we override the ui-plugin and some components modules via the requirejs path mechanism and hook them to the static html via class attributes
- The alacarte branch depends on bootstrap and jquery ui as well but only for the autocomplete plugin which could be migrated to bootstrap typeahead
On the horizon for Aloha Editor
- dev-modular, dev-ui-a-la-carte, accessibility, undo/redo
We'd need a special license?
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility
- States LGPL v2.1 is "OK: Convey project under GPLv2 or later 7" - We need an exception to use in releases