EE Default Rich Text Editor Preview Video
Last night in an email announcement, EllisLab pulled back the curtain on their new rich text editor. In a short preview video they give a look at some of the editor’s capabilities.
ExpressionEngine 2.5 Preview, the Rich Text Editor from EllisLab, Inc. on Vimeo.
Until I actually use this thing I can’t really comment much on it. Demos of software are different than actually using them. That being said it does look like this editor will be a nice default for ExpressionEngine and certainly has been a missing piece for a long time. Does it replace other third party editors like Wygwam? I don’t think so. If only for the lack of “Paste from Word.”
My full comment and review will be reserved for whenever it is I can use the editor myself. Until then, be sure to watch the video and leave your comment here about what you think (EllisLab closed comments on the video page).
Posted on Feb 23, 2012 by Ryan Irelan
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Alistair — 11:25 on 02.23.2012
Ahh, nice, good timing as well. I was just about to go for a wysiwyg plugin but this looks much neater. When is 2.5 being released?
Fred Carlsen — 11:43 on 02.23.2012
One thing I’ve noticed people commenting on is the fact that it isn’t a all-in Wygwam/Wyvern-killer/missing this or that feature. I think they’re missing the point, which is that finally we’ll have a default, extendable editor.
Which is great. It’s been missing for a long time. I just hope it will be available for the category custom fields.
Ryan — 09:15 on 02.26.2012
This looks great but what matters most to me is that the text editor strips out junk and empty tags when saving. The WordPress text editor is hands down the best I’ve ever used in the way it cleans up the mess clients inevitably make. Fingers crossed EllisLabs have considered this too.