V3 will not only be an amazing piece of software. Its development methodology is to be completely transformed with the Open Development Effort.
The Open Development Effort is our attempt to expand the development of V3 to the public in all its levels: discussions, research, design, coding, documentation, integration and sponsorship. The FCKeditor team will be in touch with people from all around the world, specialized on many different technology aspects, ensuring that all important arguments are being considered before and during the project development.
Join us, and stay in touch! Amazing things are about to happen!
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Check out our documentation web site for more information about the ODE:
http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_3.x ... ecture/ODE
Frederico Knabben
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For V3, I think we'll not have fckeditor.html anymore. For the dialogs instead, it makes a lot of sense on having them isolated in their own files, as it brings a progressive code download, under request.
The only question that remains in this topic is: How to download FCKeditor from a CDN?
I'm also thinking on solutions for it. It means that .html pages should be removed and replace with .js files. In this way, we'll not have document.domain restrictions.
To conclude, yes, we'll be working to reduce those dependencies. Suggestions would be wonderful to help us finding better ways to do that.
Thanks!
Frederico Knabben
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Also I'd like to be able to configure the dialog invoked by Image button on the editor. I'd like the second tab (Update) to be the first one and more importantly I'd like to be able to set up the directory to upload in code using variables.
Since I'm new to the editor, I still didn't figure the simple way to achieve the desired functionality.
Also when I tried to upgrade my version of fck Editor to the most recent one I started to get some error messages regarding the toolbar. I had to go back to the old version for now and I created a complete copy of the whole solution to be able to experiment with the newest version of the editor.
But if someone is using the .NET version of the editor and can address my problems, I would be very grateful.
Thanks a lot in advance and thanks a lot for this great editor.
As a side note - I often press Save button by mistake instead of the Send. Then it takes a long time to locate the saved draft...
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The compressed source doesn't have so much files and folders, it's mostly the dialogs, but having them as separate files makes it easier to adjust them and also it allows to load them just when they are necessary instead of having even bigger js files with code that might never be used.
The number of files depending of the server language are also a minimum. If you take away the samples (why would you want to deploy a site including the samples anyway?) the only remaining files depending of the server language are the integration files (easy to spot them, they are just at the root), and the filemanager connectors (these ones might be a little trickier, but they are all grouped together, and since 2.5 there is just one folder for each of them instead of two).
So there might be some value in offering a download separated for each server language, but the differences between each package are so small at the moment that it's hard to say if it's worth the effort.
One interesting idea that might be worth leaving documented is like suggested in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=8290 it's an easy task with some drawbacks but every bit counts after all even if there are no big wins like it seems at the end. At least it might help in order to really focus on the points where the performance can be improved by discarding other ideas.
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Frederico Knabben
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As all you may have noted, we have a dedicated Forum for the Open Development Effort. So, please open new topics for each of your suggestions, instead of making this and other long threads to talk about everything.
I'm looking forward to hearing your ideas! Have fun!
Frederico Knabben
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I've just been doing some monkeying around with the code to add a feature or two that I've found awfully handy and I'm thinking they might be appreciated if I hand them back so they can be cleaned up and maybe included in future versions.
Is this the forum for code contributions or just ideas?
Should I start another thread about this or try and get a hold of someone on IRC?
Cheers for a great package.
- Webrascal
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Hi Webrascal,
This forum is really to discuss the cutting edge ideas we should keep in mind when working on the ODE for FCKeditor 3. It is an extension to the information available in the docs site.
If you want to propose code, you are certainly welcome! The right way to do that is by opening tickets and attaching patches to them at our development web site.
Thanks!
Frederico Knabben
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Thanks a lot in advance.
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Probably not, but could you state the difference? Or perhaps start some issues yourself to get us going?
I had the idea of a 'sidebar for toolbar buttons + widgets/plugins'. Is this something to discuss here?
And what about the idea of voting for feature request?
I'm starting several threads, move or delete any you don't feel fitting the ODE.
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Frederico Knabben
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