FCKeditor 2.5 Beta released

http://secunia.com/advisories/27123/
http://geeklog.net

Hi tokyoahead

FCKeditor 2.5 Beta is only supported on Opera 9.50+ as far as I know.

var oEditor ;
   if ( typeof( FCKeditorAPI ) != 'undefined' )
      oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance( 'ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_FCKeditorDescription' ) ;

   oEditor.SetHTML( '' ) ;

EDIT: i have solved changed SetHtml with SetData

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Excellent news... I shall be testing this in a moment...

http://www.databasedevelopments.com/content/view/42/67/

Really interesting new features - you have done a great work.
Will there be some documentation for the new features, i.e. the new style system ?

Testing a litte bit in the demo version, I found something which is buggy I think. The "show blocks" button shows something which is not in the source.
The following code shows an empty paragraph at the end which is not really there:

<div class="entry">
<h2>Design ist das A und O</h2>
<p>Diese Vorlage ist f&uuml;r moderne Browser optimiert, schnell und im barrierefreiem Design mit XHTML und CSS, ohne Verwendung von Tabellen. Die Texte sind beispielhaft, um einen Eindruck f&uuml;r das Layout zu vermitteln</p>
<p>Ich bin Blindtext. Von Geburt an. Es hat lange gedauert, bis ich begriffen habe, was es bedeutet, ein blinder Text zu sein: Man macht keinen Sinn. Man wirkt hier und da aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen. Oft wird man gar nicht erst gelesen. Aber bin ich deshalb ein schlechter Text? Ich weiss, dass ich nie die Chance haben werde, im Stern zu erscheinen. Aber bin ich darum weniger wichtig? Ich bin blind! Aber ich bin gerne Text. Und sollten Sie mich jetzt tats&auml;chlich zu Ende lesen, dann habe ich etwas geschafft</p>
</div>
<div class="entry">
<h2>Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Erfolg!</h2>
<p>Wir kennen die Realit&auml;ten und verwirklichen Ihre Visionen. In der t&auml;glichen Arbeit werden Perspektiven aufgezeigt. Darauf aufbauend liefern wir technologische Spitzenprodukte. Dabei ist uns Teamarbeit und ein kooperativer F&uuml;hrungsstil wichtig.</p>
<p class="bold">&quot;Wer aufh&ouml;rt besser sein zu wollen, h&ouml;rt auf, gut zu sein&quot;</p>
<p>Wir wollen</p>
<ul>
    <li>positiv denken</li>
    <li>nicht stehenbleiben&nbsp;</li>
    <li>aktiv kommunizieren</li>
    <li>die eigene Kompetenz weitergeben</li>
</ul>
<p>Wir sind &uuml;berzeugt, dass Offenheit, Ehrlichkeit und Engagement unabdingbare Voraussetzungen sind.</p>
</div>

In order to be able to position the caret at the end of the content or some other places, sometimes temporary nodes like <br> or empty <p>s might get generated while you are editing, but given its fake nature they are removed when the content is serialized to XHTML.

<img height="418" width="271" alt="" src="/_userfiles/image/Eagle.jpg" />

<img style="width: 339px; height: 97px" height="418" alt="" width="271" src="/_userfiles/image/Eagle.jpg" />

<table height="50" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="100" border="1">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<table style="width: 529px; height: 91px" height="91" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="529" border="1">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><embed menu="true" loop="true" play="true" src="/_userfiles/flash/cars_flash-db.swf" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

hello.....

i'm testing the new version in firefox 2.0.0.7

the toolbars show but the editor does not...
the error messages are:

unknown object of toolbar blockquote

and

setting a property that has only a getter
in function var FCKPanel=function(A) .....

Hi everybody,

I've a troubleshooting with 2.5 beta release: how force '<strong>' and '<em>' tags instead of '<b>' and '<i>' when click on "B" or "i" button?
The configuration directive "FCKConfig.ForceStrongEm = true" doesn't work under Firefox 2.0.0.7 and IE 7...
There are always '<b>' and '<i>' tags in view source or HTML output...

Thanks for your suggests and sorry for my simple English, I'm French!

Best regards,

Avairet

I am getting a problem in IE 6 and 7 when using the new beta with the editor in a hidden tab. IE tells me that the editor can not get focus because it is hidden. Otherwise the work looks good. I am looking forward to doing some data integration with our wiki format. Thanks for all the hard work.

I am curious. This is a problem I've been facing with FCK for a while. If you send it a set of code, it changes the order of the attributes in tags. I noticed 2.5beta still does this. Is there a way around this? I have a great need to be able to check if anything was actually changed after the user submits (checking it against the stored version), but since it changes the order of the attributes regardless of whether or not the user touches it, it makes this task impossible.

In case any one is wondering, it just swaps them back and forth. If you send it one way and save, the next time its different if you save and send it again, it changes back to the original, and so on and so on. Its kinda frustrating.

I would be nice if this were fixed, for instance, maybe if all the attributes were placed in alphabetical order or something like that.

Great app, I like it besides the above mentioned problem

SirMeili

Edit:
PS. I see there is a feature request for this already in the tracker (#249). Is there any news if this is going to be added to 2.5?

I wonder when will 2.5 go from beta to stable? in 1 month? in 1 year?

Does version 2.5 support File Upload in Apache?

alfonsoml wrote:In order to be able to position the caret at the end of the content or some other places, sometimes temporary nodes like <br> or empty <p>s might get generated while you are editing, but given its fake nature they are removed when the content is serialized to XHTML.

@Alfonso:
I was wondering: would it be possible to add an extra class to those empty paragraphs.
That would made it possible for me to make them 'invisible' when editing a document.
Could you perhaps give a clue on how to do something like that?

Regards,
Koen Willems

kwillems wrote:

alfonsoml wrote:In order to be able to position the caret at the end of the content or some other places, sometimes temporary nodes like <br> or empty <p>s might get generated while you are editing, but given its fake nature they are removed when the content is serialized to XHTML.

@Alfonso:
I was wondering: would it be possible to add an extra class to those empty paragraphs.
That would made it possible for me to make them 'invisible' when editing a document.
Could you perhaps give a clue on how to do something like that?

Regards,
Koen Willems

If a node has been added so the cursor has some place to stay, and now you want to hide that node,... where will the cursor end up?

Well, in fact I'm using a stylesheet to style tags with different colours in the editor. It looks a bit like the new showblocks option.
In my case 'normal' paragraphs have a grey background.
If i could manage to add a specific class to those extra paragraphs, I could style them with color: #000; and background: #fff.

So in fact I'm looking for the places in the source-code were those extra paragraphs are added.

Regards,
Koen Willems

Sorry, but I would need to hunt for that code and right now I don't have the time for that task. Maybe search for "paddingNode", but I'm not sure.

Thank you for showing me the right direction.
I'll give it a try.