[rant] I hate TinyMCE

[deckeda]

Not sure what you mean what part. The big open typing area ... My expectation is that it overall it should instead perform like "typical" forum editors and not render according to whatever style might have been copied/pasted. This is where it gets into trouble.

[M A V I C]

I was wondering if there's anything in the toolbar you've used which is inserting divs. If it's from copy & pasting, then I would just try pasting as plain text and then formatting it in TinyMCE.

Working with it like "typical" forum editors is not going to be very productive.

[mattkime]

tinymce represents one aspect / position in history of the web - when it was primarily on desktop computers and the value of a product is measured by the number of features it contains.

i'm sure there are situations where people truly need everything that tinymce offers - and i wonder why they don't simply create a word document and format text in countless creative ways until the feeling passes.

its much more common that tinymce stands between the user and what they wish to communicate. do you need to explore all options or should you type what you have to say, hit send, and move on?

[deckeda]

^ perfectly said! ^

[M A V I C]

mattkime wrote:
tinymce represents one aspect / position in history of the web - when it was primarily on desktop computers and the value of a product is measured by the number of features it contains.

i'm sure there are situations where people truly need everything that tinymce offers - and i wonder why they don't simply create a word document and format text in countless creative ways until the feeling passes.

its much more common that tinymce stands between the user and what they wish to communicate. do you need to explore all options or should you type what you have to say, hit send, and move on?

So, with a CMS for example, what editor do you think they should use?