Hello developers and FCK community,
I am your typical commercial user of FCK -- a coder that uses the WYSIWYG for website "back-end" content administration of some sites I run, so people in my company can easily edit the website without knowing HTML.
Now, seeing as CKEditor is nearing release, I would like to have a discussion about the "Paste from Word" feature. This feature is available in most popular WYSIWYG editors incuding TMCE and others. I haven't seen any talk about whether or not CKEditor will be automatically detecting and cleaning content pasted from word. This would be a very handy feature.
I know there has been lots of talk about "why don't you just use the paste from word button", etc, however that is only an ideal solution. Sort of like when the W3C removed the < b > and < i > tags, repacing them with strong and em. Did they really, really think the deprecated tags would ever disappear from existence, EVER? No. Browsers will have to forever support the deprecated tags, because that's the way the internet works. Old things stick around a lot longer than they need it.
That is why I suggest CKEditor should automatically detect any WORD-pasted content, and clean the word garbage without having to use the PASTE FROM WORD BUTTON. The reason is because, old habits die hard, and it's just TOO difficult to teach non-technical people, over and over and over, how to use the paste from word button. There have been plugins written for many editors that do exactly this, but no editor yet has implemented it as a feature INTO the editor. The plugins have to be rewritten with every major change.
I think the new CKEditor should have "paste from word" automatic cleaning built into the v3 release. Please lend your thoughts on this.
I am your typical commercial user of FCK -- a coder that uses the WYSIWYG for website "back-end" content administration of some sites I run, so people in my company can easily edit the website without knowing HTML.
Now, seeing as CKEditor is nearing release, I would like to have a discussion about the "Paste from Word" feature. This feature is available in most popular WYSIWYG editors incuding TMCE and others. I haven't seen any talk about whether or not CKEditor will be automatically detecting and cleaning content pasted from word. This would be a very handy feature.
I know there has been lots of talk about "why don't you just use the paste from word button", etc, however that is only an ideal solution. Sort of like when the W3C removed the < b > and < i > tags, repacing them with strong and em. Did they really, really think the deprecated tags would ever disappear from existence, EVER? No. Browsers will have to forever support the deprecated tags, because that's the way the internet works. Old things stick around a lot longer than they need it.
That is why I suggest CKEditor should automatically detect any WORD-pasted content, and clean the word garbage without having to use the PASTE FROM WORD BUTTON. The reason is because, old habits die hard, and it's just TOO difficult to teach non-technical people, over and over and over, how to use the paste from word button. There have been plugins written for many editors that do exactly this, but no editor yet has implemented it as a feature INTO the editor. The plugins have to be rewritten with every major change.
I think the new CKEditor should have "paste from word" automatic cleaning built into the v3 release. Please lend your thoughts on this.
See here: http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/7337
This is a problem on Wordpad's side, so it is not something that can be fixed by us. Please escalate this issue with Wordpad creators.
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See CKEditor 4.x docs, CKEditor 3.x docs, CKFinder docs for help. CKEditor general FAQ is useful, too!
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There's now a setting "config.pasteFromWordRemoveFontStyles" that defaults to TRUE. Setting it to false will enable font sizes and faces to be pasted from microsoft word.