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I have a problem with FCKEditor and TinyMCE.
I need a WYSIWYG editor that doesn't modify HTML when changing views (like fixing broken HTML etc.)
I have tried different configuration parameters, but none of them turn off html modification entirely.
Is there a WYSIWYG editor that doesn't modify HTML even when its broken?
Very hardly. The actual WYSIWYG editing is done by components integrated in the browsers (Midas in Firefox, contentEditable tag in IE). In my experience, they all tend to auto-fix broken HTML as best as they can. All the WYSIWYG editors build around that functionality.
I think some degree of auto-fixing is kind of inherent to any WYSIWYG editor, because broken HTML can't really be edited.
What are you trying to get around? Try to describe what your actual problem is and maybe somebody can come up with a different way.
I believe FCKEditor, TinyMCE, and many other WYSIWYG editors use editable iframes. This means they allow the browser to decide how to modify the HTML and is more of a builtin function (builtin in the sense of the browser). Someone please jump in here if I'm wrong.
Try creating your html on you desktop and copy and pasting it to your browser editor
just make sure you use the same mode on each editor ie html to html or wysiwyg to wysiwyg
Here is the desk top editor I use and it works well
Technology is moving so fast it is impossible to keep up and learn how to use all the new tool coming out
I like to try out new thing when I have the time but
I still need to get the thing done that I need to do
So I like to do the bulk of my html editing on my desk top and this is the faithful tool I use
For anything you do online it is important to understand how things work
so you are not at the mercy of others
I believe that it is important to understand and be able to edit html and create web pages
here is the easy way that I have found to achieve this
If You are looking for help with Website Creation then I would suggest that you have a look at kompozer it is an updated version of
nvu
and looks the same and operates almost the same but is a more stable software as almost all of the bugs have been removed
Go to this site http://kompozer-nvu.info/ if you are interested in a set of video tutorial that will make you a expert in no time at all
Have a look at what Kompozer can do
It is my website editor of choice as it is free
I learned to use it fully with videos
Go to the site and get the free video they are enough to get you started
Try this http://www.richtexteditor.com/demo/.
We've used it for 1 year and found the html code is well kept in this editor.
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Very often when programming, I find that I encounter problems that I have solved in the past, but don't remember the solution to. I've been trying to record notes and code snippets of solutions I come up with so that I can reference them in the future. but I don't know the best way organize my solutions so that I can quickly and productively find them in the future.
Right now I've been putting code examples into separate files in a big directory, but it can get hard to find things for the future. It would also be nice to have the ability to search for keywords so that I can quickly find what I'm looking for.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to organize a personal body of code to use as reference for future programming?
In the past, I tried to organize my folders and make a "Dictionary" of different problems with their solutions. Unfortunately, I found it was very time consuming even though it was well organized with a few collegues.
If you're working with common languages (C#, VB.Net, Java, html, javascript, css, ...), Internet is your best repository. I find it faster to type what I want on a search engine (or stackoverflow directly) than browse into a home made repository.
If you still want to make a repository, I prefered keeping the entire projects and have a "master file (excel can do)" where you can search for keywords and find which project deals with the problem.
Once in a project, you can do another search for the exact location. I found it less time consuming to do another search than pointing the diffrerents files/functions to look at in the "master file".
Hope this helps.
A friend of mine introduced me to Notion. It's basically like Evernote but has quite a lot more and you can write code blocks etc. Ever since, I use that to keep references of code and some explanations etc. Most of the time I'm too lazy to even copy and paste code snippets I find on Stack Overflow and so I just copy links into there as well. Anyway, I think some sort of integrated solution like this is pretty great.
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Looking for links to good information for Eclipse beginners. I've been a c# developer for sometime and I feel like I'm swimming in molasses. I'm especially interested in anything like the snippets functionality and how to use it (for example the prop snippet to create a property)
I'd recommend you start with the tutorials on the "Welcome" screen (automatically shown on first launch, or via Help menu).
After that, a lot of stuff can be discovered by poking around. The built-in help is also quite good, and failing that, just google for it.
Set yourself some goal, and do a bit of research; I've found most stuff fairly easily that way.
As for snippets: I'm not terribly familiar with VS, but I gather they are basically code templates that you can insert and then fill in.
In Eclipse, that would be auto-complete (or "Content Assist"), triggered by Ctrl-Space. Just try it, it's fairly clever. It will offer completions of variable names, functions etc., but will also offer common snippets like creating constructors, public methods etc. E.g. type "public ctrl-spc", and it should offer a template for a public method (try ctrl-space several times to cycle through proposals).
You can also create your own auto-complete code snippets. These are called templates in Eclipse, to be found in the prefs under "Java / Editor / Templatest". Templates can be triggerd in auto-complete by typing the (beginning) of the template's name, then auto-completing.
Have fun!
I was also a VS user for a long time and found Eclipse confusing, requires a lot more configuration to get it up and running first off.
Found this very helpful post on a Google search
http://benpryor.com/blog/2006/03/03/top-10-tips-for-new-eclipse-users/
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I don't use it often but here are a few things that threw me at first.
Workspaces confused me, there is no exact equivalent in VS, I'd say they are a bit like Solutions. I made the mistake of keeping all my projects in one workspace and after a year of work Eclipse could barely open the workspace.
You don't need to hit 'Build' to compile your code, it keeps compiling in the background so there is always an up to date list of bugs, called problems in Eclipse.
When you run your code in debug all the windows jump about some disappear and lots of strange new ones open. These different layouts are called perspectives. There is a tab bar next to the main tool bar which lets you move between open perspectives or you can close them using the Window menu.
Besides the very good Eclipse tutorials and documentation sleske mentioned here are some other good tutorials and introductions:
IBM tutorial for Visual Studio users - you have to register for reading this tutorial but registration is free and you can download a bunch of really good Eclipse materials
Effective Eclipse - Custom Templates - this article shows you Eclipse's "snippets funcionality" in details
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I've been using the FCK Editor for several of my client sites in the past. Recently due to some new browser security updates(I'm assuming) some of the functionality is now breaking.
I was planning on updating those sites to the most recent version, but sometimes I think the FCK is overly complex and tends to confuse my clients more than it helps them out.
What other HTML WYSIWYG (if there is such a thing) are good out there. A few of the items I really like about the FCK that I would want to keep:
Drop Down Styles based on CSS
Auto Inserted HTML templates
Auto Inserted HTML snippets
File uploader / browser
Thanks
Aloha Editor is a modern alternative to TinyMCE and CKEditor. It allows you to have common textbox style WYSIWYG Editor as replacement for textarea, but it also allows you to editing most of the DOM elements directly. This makes real WYSIWYG possible. It supports a lot a fancy new HTML5 and CSS3 functions.
Aloha Editor comes with a repository API, an autocomplete for file/images/other objects and a file/image/other object browser.
http://www.alohaeditor.org/
To get those features you're most likely going to end up with a solution that's just as bloated as FCKEditor. radEditor is the most bloated piece of crap I've ever been forced to work with. The latest version is not any better despite their claims of improvement. Cute is OK but costs money. YUI looks nice but I haven't played with it enough to know how extensible or fast it is.
The last versions of FCK (2.6+) have been much better. The dialogs are no longer popup windows so they work in more browsers. The plugin model is better than the others I have tried and it's easy to configure in one place (I may be wrong but I think TinyMCE requires the config embedded with every instance). They all generate less-than-ideal markup but FCK does the best job, especially in the latest versions. Customize the FCK toolbars down to just the essentials and I think your clients will like it a lot more. Mine do.
Yahoo Editor from Yahoo YUI
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Rolling up the other answers:
TinyMCE
CuteSoft
and, of course, Markdown which is the one you used to type the question in.
TinyMCE is my personal favorite. You'd have to shoehorn the rest in, however.
The next generation FCKEditor is available now in the form of CKEditor. I recently converted an application to use that having previously used FCKEditor and found it fairly straight forward.
CuteEditor (commercial versions for ASP, ASP.NET & PHP)
Are you talking controls that are free or paid? If paid, the only one I use is Telerik's radEditor. Ridiculously flexible and you can turn off basically anything and everything and make it look however you want (i.e. it's skinnable).
If you're already using jquery, then you may consider using markItUp! which is implemented as a jquery plug-in. It could be lighter than other editors with similar feature set which doesn't make use of any framework.
It supports HTML, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode. You can also use your custom syntax.
http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/
You might consider the Rich Text Editor in Flex. (Or Silverlight, for that matter.) It's a bit more of a controlled environment.
netEditr.com is based on TinyMCE as the default WYSIWYG XHTML designer. Go have a test run and see if it fits your needs.
Just wanted to get an idea for ways (web) developers get round the short fall of (most) WYSIWYG editors, whereby the users that are editing the text aren't always HTML literate enough to produce good/great results.
In the past we have resigned ourselves to either locking down the editor or simply not supplying one.
What are other peoples experiences?
If I understand your question correctly, my advice would be to allow basic text formatting in the editor (bold, italicize, underline, paragraph breaks, etc). Anything beyond that should be handled either by custom fields in your CMS system that talk to the corresponding template, or directly by your designers / front-end people. There really should be no designing going on in your text editor.
Also, using a templating language like Markdown might help editors feel more comfortable formatting their pages.
If you have the resources (as the question implies you do) you get the users to supply copy and designs in what they do know (Powerpoint, Word, Fireworks, etc) and get the people who can do a correct implementation (but who might not be able to write decent prose, etc) to put it into the HTML/CMS/magicthing.
Sometimes it is possible to use something like WYMeditor - it isn't that simple but produces clean semantic code. The other way is using some wiki-like code - Markdown for example. And you can ease editor's life by using some helpers like MarkItUp editor (it also supports original Wiki and Textile).
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Is there a free software for creating windows help files for your program?
I would like something that allows an output of both CHM and HTML files.
Yes. HelpMaker from sourceforge (The original site www.vizacc.com is down). Best free help utility ever.
HTML Help Workshop by Microsoft.
If you're developing for .NET and you're looking to generate XML documentation help files you should look into Microsoft's shared-source Sandcastle project, and the front-end GUI for it "Sandcastle Help File Builder."
It's pretty nice and highly configurable. You can make some really good help documentation using it.
It was a little slow the last time I used it (over 6 months ago) but it may have been optimized since then...
I'm not sure about 'free', but Dr. Explain is a little over $100 and worth every penny. We use it to produce both help for desktop apps with a single CHM and web apps using the HTML export. The best part is that it 'auto-magically' mines your webpage or app page and starts the basic construction of the help for you. The ROI for us was about 1 day.
HelpNDoc is free for personal use. It can generate CHM and HTML help files as requested, as well as Word DocX, PDF, ePub and Kindle eBooks from the same source.
DocBook is a universal standard file format for writing software documentation.
DocBook is an XML file format and as such is already blessed by Microsoft. It is declarative, earning it further kudos.
DocBook allows you to identify to it what pictures are screenshots, what strings of words are actually commands, and so forth. Which yes, actually means it is a bonafide part of the semantic web.
Because of this, you can use an XPath expression to search for all the screenshots, all the commands, and so forth. Decent IDE's all support XPath searches, and so do lots of small, free utilities.
Once you have worked out which XPath search string returns the content you want, you can write a little XSLT stylesheet yourself or with someone else's help. The stylesheet can collect the information and generate an HTML bullet-list (UL LI), a definitions list (DL DT,DD), or a quick reference card. Whatever you like. XPath, XSLT, and the various *ML languages are very flexible.
Read From DocBook to Integrated Help Systems for information about how to automatically convert a DocBook standard file into a proprietary and very practical Microsoft Windows HTML Help file.
For more information about DocBook itself go visit http://www.docbook.org/ - and grab the free XSLT stylesheets for the latest version while you are there.
DocBook files can be automatically converted into many file formats besides the one used in Microsoft Windows WinHelp files. See the docbook.org web site for details. It is a long list of supported file formats, so brace yourself for a pleasant surprise!
If you already have a structured XML text editor, you might want to use that. If you are writing a really big online help file then consider oXygenXML and/or Open Office Writer. The former is a commercial product and the latter is free, open source software.
For more information about using Open Office Writer to create/edit DocBook files, read Getting Started with DocBook on Open Office.
Doxygen, while originally meant to produce code documentation can be made quite easily to produce any kind of help.
It's not "free" but the best software I've ever come across is HelpScribble from Just Great Software. I use it on Windows 7 without any problem. What I like most is its ability to integrate SHG files into the helpfile. A picture is worth a thousand words so I tend to use screen images where I capture buttons, text boxes or whatever. The user can see that screen and then just click of the display they want more information on an "BOOM!" ... the explanation pops right up! There's no need to thumb through pages of a manual or screens.