[TYPO3] Is htmlArea dead?

[Timothy Patterson]

We have TinyMCE and FCKEditor as candidates so far...  Any others?

I'm willing to donate my time and coding effort in an attempt to create 
a much nicer editor for Typo3 to use.  I have played with the existing 
TinyRTE extension and it looks very promising - just needs some 
polishing around the edges.

One thing that I really do not like about TinyMCE though is the fact 
that styles you define are available for all elements - meaning that you 
cannot specify specific styles for specific tags.

I agree that it is a project for the 5.0 team, however based on the 
problems I have been fighting with htmlArea lately (losing divs, using 
arrow keys results in lost cursor, and no source formatting - grr!) I 
feel that now is the time for Typo3 to step up to the plate.  I hate to 
use these words on this message board, but I'm afraid that other 
projects like Drupal or Joomla may be the doom of Typo3 unless Typo3 can 
keep up functionality wise - starting with the most basic elements of 
all - the RTE.

Christopher Torgalson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 6/20/07, ries van Twisk <typo3 at rvt.dds.nl> wrote:
>> htmlarea is dead and buried already for a loooooong time.
>>
>> I remember there was a discussion about this and the current maintainer
>> of htmlarea doesn't have time to switch RTE.
>>
>> I feel it's indeed time to switch the RTE to something that is
>> maintained,
>> Tiny is a good choice aswell as FCK.
>>
>> However who is going to do the huge job?
> 
> 
> 
> If you ask me, this is a project for 5.0 instead of 4.x. HTMLarea
> itself is pretty good, but the necessary TYPO3 configuration is a
> notorious nightmare. /This/ is the huge job with TYPO3 and RTEs...
> 
>