Open letter to Frederico Kaldeira Knabben

First:
The FCKeditor project is a great project.

Second:
From my previous (mailing) contact with you I know you are a serious developer.

Then:
There are some serious issues (at least for me) I would like to get fixed before implementing FCKedtior
into my CMS project, and I might want to DONATE (give) you some money to get those
specific issues to be fixed. (have donated moeny earlier)

However:
I do not just want to donate money without knowing
if the money I donate will be used to fix the issues that are important for me to work.

Have tried for a while to get in contact with you without any replies.
Have tried to mail you using: fredck@fckeditor.net
This only gives me an autoreply answer which is of no use.

Have also tried to mail you using: fredck@fredck.com
No answer. It might be that you have tried and it got lost in bulk folder, i do no not know....

I DO NOT use the mailaddress given to me by sourceforge.

So then I will try here:

Issue 1.
Delete/Backspace/CTRL+x not working without first changing content in FF.
Have checked this in the buglist (BUG 1242979) and there is no word here if
the bug is being worked on or not.
Are this beeing worked on?
When is it expected to be fixed?

Issue 2.
Working with DIV's behaves differently and sometimes do not work in FF and IE (only tested in those two).

Here are my class definitions and styles definition for others to try as well.

Classes for DIV's put in the .css file:

.divtest-left { padding: 20px; font-family:arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px; width: 50%; background-color: #aaaaaa; color: black; }
.divtest-left a { color: black; text-decoration: underline; }
.divtest-left h3 { margin:0; padding:0; color: #ffff44; font-family:arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px; font-weight:bold; }

.divtest-right { display:inline; float:right; padding: 5px; margin:0; font-family:arial, sans-serif; font-size:10px; width: 50%; background-color: #448844; color: white; }
.divtest-right a { color: white; text-decoration: underline; }
.divtest-right h3 { color: #44ffff; }

Definition in fckstyles.xml:

<Style name="Title H3" element="h3" />
<Style name="LeftContainer" element="div">
<Attribute name="class" value="divtest-left" />
</Style>
<Style name="RightContainer" element="div">
<Attribute name="class" value="divtest-right" />
</Style>

DIV's when using IE:

I write some text in the editor area, then select the text and select the LeftContainer style.
A div (first level div) is created around the text with the class applied to it. So far so good.
If I click on/in div for the first time then a nice border is shown to indicate that the DIV is selected.
This is nice. When I click twice above some text in the DIV then cursor is placed within the text
and I can start to write and eventually move around using the arrow (keyboard) buttons or select using SHIFT+arrow
buttons.
If I select a div, I can drag the div and its content around within the editor area. This is nice. ( and would be
nice to have for FF as well (I'll guess this is a browser issue but do not know)).
I CANNOT select text by left-click and drag (that would be nice to do if possible, is this a browser limitation or not?, probably not since works in TinyMCE).
IT does not look like the inline and float works as it should for first level div (you have to change the class to see this),
text are not wrapping around the div if inline and float are applied.

Okay, if I now write some more text inside my newly created div, then select that text and then select the RightContainer style.
A div (second level div) are now created within the first DIV. So far so good.
I CANNOT edit any text within the second level div.
IT does not look like the inline and float works as it should. Text are not wrapping around the second level div.

When I select a DIV and I scroll that DIV outside the top border or bottom border of the editor area then the markings around
the DIV is visible outside the editor area and floats on top of other elements in the page. This is annoying.

When I select a DIV and I scroll that DIV outside the top border so the DIV markings gets above the editor buttons then the
editor buttons that is within the DIV markings are not clickable. THIS is not so good.


DIV's when using FF:

I write some text in the editor area, then select the text and select the LeftContainer style.
A div (first level div) is created around the text with the class applied to it. So far so good.

It is easy to edit text within the DIV. It is possible to select text by dragging the mouse.. great (It should work like this in IE as well).
Not possible though to mark the whole DIV and drag it around in the editor area as it is in IE, but
that is not that important though.

IF I now try to write some text either before or after DIV that is not possible. Unable to
place the cursor outside the DIV in editor area. (Note: to reproduce this you must not have entered any other text
or line breaks outside the created DIV in the editor area).

Okay... I enter a couple of linebreaks at the end of the first DIV that I created. Then I write a couple of lines, and select
those lines, and select the RightContainer style from the style dropdown.
A div is created and class applied. Great.
Text is easily editable. Great.
THE div continues above (below) the the bottom border of the first DIV and this is not good, if I remove the float attribute then the DIV displays
correct within the outer div.
TEXT in the first div does not wrap around the second floating div.

Other DIV stuff:

As you can see I have created a style for the H3 tag "within" the styles above.
I have found that using IE and FF to insert H3 tags within my DIVS behaves somewhat differently.

Inserting a H3 in IE using style dropdown and the format dropdown:
Writing a line in the beginning of the text in the first (outer DIV), then select that line,
then select the H3 (tag) from the styles dropdown applies the H3 tag only to the selected text. Which is what I wanted. nice.

BUT inserting the same H3 tag using the format dropdown applies the H3 tag to all the text in the DIV .
Why is this behaving differently. In my opinion they should not. I might be wrong.

If I use styles or the format dropdown to apply the H3 tag, only the styles H3 shows when I place
the cursor in the text between the H3 tags and not the "Heading 3" from the format dropdown.


Inserting a H3 in FF using style dropdown or the format dropdown behaves the same (in FF), and the H3 tag
is only applied to the selected Text (this I like).
When placing the cursor within the text between the H3 tags the H3 style shows in the
styles dropdown and in the format dropdown.


Note:( In TinyMCE it is possible in IE to mouse-drag to select text within a DIV. so this might be possible in FCKeditor as well... ??)
If it is not possible to mouse-click and drag to select text and
keeping the ability to select the whole DIV and drag it around, I think I would prefer the ability to
select the text with mouse-left-click and drag in IE and skip the DIV selection.
In my opinion it is better if it works the same in FF and IE. Maybe some others do not agree... okay... maybe possible to
control this behaviour in fckconfig.js in the future.

Issue 3:

BODY styles:

I want to make it possible for my users to change the BODY styles (read class) on the fly.
The best way for me would be to let the users create their own classes as I did for the DIV's in the beginning of my post.
(The user defined classes are stored in a database and in externaly generated .css file.
Then I would display those (particular BODY) styles in a dropdown outside (or inside) FCKeditor.
NOTE: it is BODY styles in FCKeditor but not in my populated pages where it is styles (class) applied to a DIV container.
When the user then select one of those styles I would like the BODY styles for the editor area to change accordingly without having to refresh the page.

Okay... have not done much testing on this one except that I know how to apply the default styles for the editor area.
But with this kind of body styling it is a bit awkward to change each of the body style attributes one by one in javascript and would
be MUCH better (IMHO) and easier if it was possible to define a class for the BODY tag and then be able to change/switch the class
by using javascript.

***** End of issues ******

All testing using FCKedtior 2.0 Final on Windows XP with FF 1.06 and IE 6.0.

As I said before:
I'm willing to give money to the project but then only if I know if you use that money to do the above,
and if it is doable at all and with a timeframe.
But then I need to get in direct email-contact with you as well.

Might be that DIV's are not supposed to be used toghether with the FCKedtior.
I hope this is not the case and that you will and have time to work on these issues.

Best luck with the project, it rocks.