[Typo3] Better RTE

[Joonas Savolainen]

Hey Christopher,

is your extension publicly available? Sounds good to have the configs done 
in an extension, but I don't have much experience in creating my own 
extensions..

- Joonas


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scotty C" <superscotty19 at yahoo.com>
To: "TYPO3 English" <typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Typo3] Better RTE


> Hey Christopher,
>
> That sound fantastic - thank you for sharing your
> experience! I was not aware of such a detailed manual
> - I'll have to check it out.
>
> -Scott.
>
>
>
> --- Christopher <bedlamhotel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 26/11/05, Scotty C <superscotty19 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I knew you'd ask me that! hahaha
>> > It's been a while since I've used it (and yes, I
>> used
>> > the current version), but I seem to recall some
>> major
>> > formatting issues. It treated *everything* as
>> being
>> > enclosed in a <p> tag.
>> >
>> > Perhaps I only needed to modify a css file or
>> > something, but in my opinion, if I have to do
>> that,
>> > then we're defeating the point of something that
>> is
>> > meant to make life easier.
>> >
>>
>> I've never had this particular problem. The RTEs are
>> _all_ tricky to
>> configure, but the HtmlArea RTE has a superb manual
>> explaining the
>> configuration options. It's simply a case of going
>> through all the
>> config options in the manual once or twice and
>> getting one install set
>> up the way you like. By limiting the toolbar options
>> available to
>> editors--and making sure you set the
>> Mozilla/IE-related config options
>> correctly--it's quite possible to enable
>> non-technical editors to
>> create pristine markup with the RTE.
>>
>> When I arrived at a configuration that I thought was
>> generally
>> applicable to my clients' needs, I just created a
>> small extension with
>> the appropriate TSconfig and TS properties, so that,
>> now, configuring
>> the RTE on a new site takes five seconds to install
>> the configuration
>> extension plus fifteen or twenty minutes spent
>> overriding specific
>> settings from the extension and (if needed) creating
>> a custom
>> stylesheet to control the appearance of text in the
>> RTE.
>>
>> -Christopher
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