MothersClick.com, a social networking site for mother's, is looking for a user friendly yet fully functional and configurable WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor. So I spent a few days installing all available Drupal 5 WYSIWYG editors on my local machine. Each editor was setup on it's own fresh installation of Drupal 5.11. The default theme was Garland and then the top 3 editors wered later tested in a development environment for MothersClick.com.
http://drupal.org/project/yui_editor
5.x-2.6-96 : 2008-Jul-08
12.72 KB
Majority Closed
Very Few Active
Yahoo! YUI Module - http://drupal.org/project/yui
Fairly simple. Drop in both the Yahoo YUI and YUI Rich Text Editor modules and enable them.
Single page configuration. Checkboxes to enable simple or advanced, toggle to plain text editor.
Probably the most user friendly interface.
From what I have seen thus far the markup is very clean. It has an option to use XHTML instead of old school HTML which still uses degraded tags.
http://drupal.org/project/tinymce
5.x-1.9 : 2007-Jul-31
37.45 KB
22 pages
Majority Closed
Many Active
Few patches
Fairly simple. Drop in the module. Download the TinyMCE editor from publisher site and drop entire folder into tinymce folder making sure it's named “tinymce”. Enable TinyMCE module.
There's a lot of settings so I can see how configuration could feel confusing or overwhelming. Luckily, once you click through the options it becomes more clear as to what all these configuration settings do. Many of the options are checkboxes that will add or remove buttons from the toolbar or enable or disable plugins for the editor.
http://drupal.org/project/openwysiwyg
5.x-1.18 : 2008-Oct-11
98.45 KB
Very few tickets
Most closed
Few active
None
Simple. Drop in the module and enable it.
Fairly simple. Allowed to set width and height of textarea. Two toolbars are are allowed. To add items to each toolbar all options are displayed as image buttons, click the button you wish to add to the toolbar and it's name will appear in a single line textfield below.
Allowed to confgure which pages the editor will appear on as well as limiting it even further by css class name of the field.
http://drupal.org/project/nicedit
5.x-1.x-dev : 2008-Mar-05
14.44 KB
Overall not many tickets
A Lot Active
Few Closed
Very Few Patches
None
Simple. Drop in the module and enable it.
A bunch of checkboxes to enable what buttons to display on toolbar.
No options for limiting what forms this will appear on.
From a user standpoint this WYSIWYG editor is as simple as using a word processor. Even with all available buttons enabled the toolbar is easy to understand.
