Is there any interest out there for a version of CKEditor that is based on jQuery? I myself am very interested in the idea, and plan to start on it when I have time.
CKEditor is, without a doubt, the best WYSIWYG editor out there. But at 250k, it can slow down page loads quite a bit. I have a pretty good feeling that if it were to be written using jQuery, that could be cut down to about 150k (+ jQuery, which is 50k). Sure, to those who don't use jquery, it's only a 50k savings. But to users who already use jQuery, that's almost a 50% reduction.
Java Libraries is becoming a pretty standard thing on the 'net (moo tools, jquery), few sites don't use them. And fck reproduces a lot of the functionality already available in those libraries.
I'm not saying the non-jquery version of ckeditor should be killed just yet, but could we at least get a branch in SVN going?
CKEditor is, without a doubt, the best WYSIWYG editor out there. But at 250k, it can slow down page loads quite a bit. I have a pretty good feeling that if it were to be written using jQuery, that could be cut down to about 150k (+ jQuery, which is 50k). Sure, to those who don't use jquery, it's only a 50k savings. But to users who already use jQuery, that's almost a 50% reduction.
Java Libraries is becoming a pretty standard thing on the 'net (moo tools, jquery), few sites don't use them. And fck reproduces a lot of the functionality already available in those libraries.
I'm not saying the non-jquery version of ckeditor should be killed just yet, but could we at least get a branch in SVN going?
Re: CKEditor jQuery version?
In the mean time I just need to find the doc that tells me how to read the contents of a CKEditor text with JQuery.