FCKeditor 2.5 released

Great work, developers! Congratulations!

Great work, but the new style system really bloats the output. If you apply multiple formatting commands to the same selection, you get multiple "<span>...</span>" tags, whereas the previous system would produce a single "<font>...</font>" tag.

For example, select a single word, change the font, font size, colour and background colour.

In v2.4, the output from Firefox is:

<font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#ffffff" style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Test</font>

(106 characters)

From IE7:

<font style="background-color: #ff0000" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#ffffff" size="5">Test</font>

(98 characters)


In v2.5, the output from Firefox is:

<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Test</span></span></span></span>

(196 characters)

From IE7:

<span style="background-color: #ff0000"><span style="color: #ffffff"><span style="font-size: large"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS">Test</span></span></span></span>

(174 characters)

I have integrated FCK Editor 2.5 released in my Asp.net 2.0 application , Its working fine for Mozilla firefox but when I checked this on Netscape browser 8.0 then its not allowing to enter any text, even i am not able to put cursor in its edit area. After this I checked the demo on fckeditor.net using Netscape browser 8.0 but same result.

Can anyone explain this whether its compatible for Netscape browser or not.


Thanks
Vaseem

Hi guys,

The new Styles editor is great, although I need to disable this and use the original <Font></Font> tags for a compatibility with some mail clients. The Blurb for v2.5 says:

"The most exciting feature is the new Style System. Now you have full control over every single formatting and semantic command available in the editor interface. Why having a limited interface to achieve a XHTML 1.1 experience? Enjoy a full featured editor, while well controlling how things work on it. No more <font> tags? Well, the system is so flexible that it is up to you to decide (but don't worry... no <font> tags by default ."

How do I decide? Is there a flag/option somewhere to disable this, or is the work more substantial? If someone has an answer to this, could they let me know ASAP?

Thanks,
BeakZ

Hey 2.5 is awesome!! Any idea on when we can see a version integrated with Wikimedia? The best part about this new version is the ability to upload an image while you are editing the page. This is similar to what Jotspot has but seems much more feature rich.

Hi,

thanks for this new version. I'm very interested too by the answer of the question of Beaker.

Because of the problem which Richard_d talk about.

Thanks in advance.

Ok, I've tested it and now it's creating multiples font tags if I do the same for Size and color

How can I revert it to the original <font> functionallity???

The PHP developer's guide at http://wiki.fckeditor.net/ just takes me to an advert for drugs..

Is there anything essential I need to know for the new 2.5 version?

I installed 2.5 on my web app, and everything works great - after a bit of squirreling into the code!

But I got the impression (from somewhere, can't remember where!) that now with this new version you don't have to use the subfolders/directories "file", "flash", "image" and "media".. Yet my configuration doesn't work if I don't set up those folders. Have I got that wrong?

Also can you direct me to the documentation concerning uploading files that aren't images (eg mp3s, flash, etc)?

Thank you for this great resource!

kemmotar wrote:Ok, I've tested it and now it's creating multiples font tags if I do the same for Size and color

How can I revert it to the original <font> functionallity???

I'm doing a CMS for a flash application and I have problems with FCK creating multiple font tags as flash's dynamic text box can't parse multiple html tags. I know it can be done using PHP preg_replace but has anyone have a solution to this without using PHP? Or is there a download somewhere for the old version of FCK editor? TNX

I'm having terrible problems with span span span span span any small change that happends a new span tag appers. Is there any way to stop this?

I went over to the dev site and it said

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kemmotar wrote:Ok, I've tested it and now it's creating multiples font tags if I do the same for Size and color

How can I revert it to the original <font> functionallity???

Did you ever find a fix for this? I'm really fed up of the multiple span / multiple font tag problem. It's just being ignored.

Can anyone provide any help on this? I don't want so many tags for such small changes. It's a regression.

/Thanks

Any updates about this issue?
I'm having trouble in our E-Commerce system with multiple span.