I'm looking into the potential of creating a Google Docs clone (on top of EyeOS, actually). I'm wondering the potential of using FCKeditor versus coding from scratch; on the face it seems like I'd have to make a fork rather than use integration.
The main issues would of course entail internal data structure versus display. A good office application would (for instance) store in ODF format (so, FCKeditor would store in ODT) and simply translate to displayed HTML. FCKeditor of course stores in HTML as far as I can tell ... it's a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Taking FCKeditor in the direction of having an internal data format i.e. ODF would certainly satisfy a goal, but not likely the core goal of FCKeditor.
Anyone have any thoughts or comments?
The main issues would of course entail internal data structure versus display. A good office application would (for instance) store in ODF format (so, FCKeditor would store in ODT) and simply translate to displayed HTML. FCKeditor of course stores in HTML as far as I can tell ... it's a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Taking FCKeditor in the direction of having an internal data format i.e. ODF would certainly satisfy a goal, but not likely the core goal of FCKeditor.
Anyone have any thoughts or comments?
Re: FCKeditor/Docs?
I don't think that you need to fork anything.
Take a look at http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/index.php/Main_Page : wiki syntax is generated.
Using the new "Data processor" you can choose how to transform the code to/from html, there's a BBcode sample plugin in the zip.
Study those options and probably you'll find what you need.