CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

I used the default CKEditor which submits the data to a database. I got the latest CKEditor software. I have the latest Chrome, IE8 and Firefox. I am getting the same problems on all of these browsers. Here are just some of them:

Firefox 3.6.6
After submitting table, Border, Cell spacing and Cell padding adds slashes and double quotes.
After submitting table, width and height set to null.

IE 8.0.60001.18702
Add tables with 1 row and 1 cell. Type something in the table and save.
After saving table, 3 paragraphs added above table and table gets resized.
Copy and paste bullet list from another page into editor table cell, save, table is then completely removed.

What the HELL is going on? Is there a stable release of CKEditor or are you doing this so people can pay you for support to help them?

Anybody here perhaps know of some alternative I could use? Something that works?

Thanks.

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 08:47

mattfromga

Joined: 13/12/2008

Posts: 21

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

I just tried to upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3.1 and found enough problems to have to revert back to 3.2.

Some of the issues involved "Dojo not being found", to the entire page's CSS getting messed up when using the about ck editor button before content being placed into the editor, to "Tried to register widget with id==scayt_3 but that id is already registered" errors once I switch to source mode and then start switching content in the editor.

As soon as I went back to 3.2, the overall site was working well again. I hope they can resolve these issues soon for a 3.4 release.

These guys are doing good work and I think it is in poor taste to accuse them of doing such a thing on purpose in order to get paid for support. Bad releases happen to everyone and this is an open source project to boot.

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 08:56

comp615

Joined: 02/07/2010

Posts: 295

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:01

sportevent

Joined: 19/07/2010

Posts: 3

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

Yes it is free and yes it is a great product, but how do I tell my manager to buy this if he finds that not even the basics are working?

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:49

comp615

Joined: 02/07/2010

Posts: 295

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 18:11

sportevent

Joined: 19/07/2010

Posts: 3

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

I know it is the best and want to use it.

Everything I do in the CKEditor is submitted to a BLOB column in a database.
I add a standard table. (NOT changing any properties)
I type some plain text data into the fields.

This was done on Firefox 3.6.6
Part of the source before submit to database.

<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 100%;">
   <tbody>
                .....
</table>

Source after submit to database:

<table border="\&quot;1\&quot;" cellpadding="\&quot;1\&quot;" cellspacing="\&quot;1\&quot;" style="">
   <tbody>
                .....
</table>

Notice the table line change?

IE test:
Table 100%, 1 row, 1 column
Before submit:

<table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 100%">
   <tbody>
      <tr>
         <td>
            &nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
   </tbody>
</table>

After Submit:

<p>
   &nbsp;</p>
<p>
   &nbsp;</p>
<p>
   &nbsp;</p>
<p>
   <tbody>
      <tr>
         <td>
            &nbsp;</td>
      </tr>
   </tbody>
</p>

Am I doing something wrong here?

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 20:40

comp615

Joined: 02/07/2010

Posts: 295

Re: CKEditor Bugs or Not Stable?

http://nightly.ckeditor.com/5708/_sampl ... class.html