[TYPO3] Is htmlArea dead?

[Timothy Patterson]

I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to keep both the user TS config 
and the page TS config to create customized RTE environments...

Should we compile a list of proposed features as well as debate which 
editor to potentially move to?

Francois Suter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> My biggest problem setting up TYPO3 is the RTE - every time. It's just
>> not the same in the editor as in the frontend. "You don't really see
>> what you get" - that's why I'm considering an alternative in the last
>> months. It's really a pain configuring the RTE through the PageTSConfig.
>> Maybe there is an easy "real-time" configurator for that?
> 
> It's true that configuring the rtehtmlarea is not easy at first, but 
> it's feasible. There are a lots of options, which may seem daunting, but 
> that also gives you incredible flexibility. It got even better since 
> version 4.0 of TYPO3, where you can put Page TSConfig inside the User 
> TSConfig, which means every user (group) can have its own settings of 
> the RTE. This - I think - is amazingly powerful, although it does come 
> at a price. The reason I'm not switching the TinyRTE is that I *need* 
> all those options.
> 
> A "real-time" configurator for so many options is certainly feasible, 
> but represents a huge undertaking IMO.
> 
>> I will definitely check out tinyRTE for all my T3 projects.
>> It doesn't feel as sloppy as htmlarea, don't know if it's better to
>> configure etc. though.
> 
> Now I agree that the thought that HTMLArea is a dead project is 
> disturbing. Both FCK and TinyMCE are valid alternatives, alive and 
> kicking, as well as Xinha, for example.
> 
> One thing to remember though is that the complexity of configuring 
> rtehtmlarea does not come just from the extension itself. Part of the 
> nightmare is due to TYPO3's transformation process. Text input into the 
> RTE goes through several transformations: from RTE to DB, form DB to 
> RTE, from DB to FE,... I'm not sure if I've got everything, but most 
> often when people complain of HTMLArea stripping this or that tag, it 
> really one of those parseFunc's fault.
> 
>> btw... I was just smiling the other day: Remember that the old RTE had
>> only support for IE? tsts... ;-)
> 
> You betcha! What a nightmare!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> François Suter
> Directeur technique
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