As a happy user for sevaral years (way before Adobe even included the editor in Coldfusion!), I think that the current version is suffering on two major areas:
1. Aesthetics - the available skins are truly bad (sorry, no better way of saying it). However, trying to fix them is a nightmare due to the utter lack of documentation on the CSS files. I have been unable to find any comprehensive documentation on how to create custom skins (and trust me, I have tried). After countless hours of hard labor, I put some semi-dent sking together, but I guess most people just give up (I persisted only because I wanted to impress my client!!!).
2. Very poor documentation - no much to say other than the help files are not complete and most of the time the explanations are very superfical or just inexistent. These forums are not much help either, because very often the more advanced users (perhaps affiliated to CKEditor) just refer people to the documentation, without any pointers or indication as to where in the documents the related information would be located.
I think that the product has reached a point where adding more features is not as important as fixing these two major issues. Another area of improvement that I'm sure would help a lot is to create individual downloads by scripting language. for example, the "Coldfusion" version should not include any PHP files and viceversa.
I don't know about others, but I would be more than happy to pay for the developers' time - I fully understand that what I want or suggest is actually a lot of work and somebody must pay for it. I'd GLADLY pay for the skins and I'd GLADLY pay for well-developed documentation. I'd GLADLY pay for "specialized versions" (streamlined versions targetting different scripting language versions, different feature sets, or whatever the developers might think of use).
Any thoughts?
1. Aesthetics - the available skins are truly bad (sorry, no better way of saying it). However, trying to fix them is a nightmare due to the utter lack of documentation on the CSS files. I have been unable to find any comprehensive documentation on how to create custom skins (and trust me, I have tried). After countless hours of hard labor, I put some semi-dent sking together, but I guess most people just give up (I persisted only because I wanted to impress my client!!!).
2. Very poor documentation - no much to say other than the help files are not complete and most of the time the explanations are very superfical or just inexistent. These forums are not much help either, because very often the more advanced users (perhaps affiliated to CKEditor) just refer people to the documentation, without any pointers or indication as to where in the documents the related information would be located.
I think that the product has reached a point where adding more features is not as important as fixing these two major issues. Another area of improvement that I'm sure would help a lot is to create individual downloads by scripting language. for example, the "Coldfusion" version should not include any PHP files and viceversa.
I don't know about others, but I would be more than happy to pay for the developers' time - I fully understand that what I want or suggest is actually a lot of work and somebody must pay for it. I'd GLADLY pay for the skins and I'd GLADLY pay for well-developed documentation. I'd GLADLY pay for "specialized versions" (streamlined versions targetting different scripting language versions, different feature sets, or whatever the developers might think of use).
Any thoughts?