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Editors compared:
Those are the editors that were evaluated:
Let's review the different categories.
Comparative by categories:
Font Formating:
- BFF: Basic Font Edition means support for Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike, Sub and Super.
- FSS: Font Size Selector.
- FSP: Font Size Preview (at Selector).
- FFTS: Font Family Type.
- FFTP: Font Family Type Preview (at Selector).
- FFS: Font Format Selector for some basic html tags (hx, div, pre, adress).
- FFP: Font Format Preview for some basic html tags (hx, div, pre, adress) at Selector.
- FFC: Font Foreground Color (with eyedropper).
- FBC: Font Background Color (with eyedropper).
Cascade Style Sheets Support:
- CSS: CSS Style Selector.
- CSP: CSS Style Preview (at selector).
- WCA: Web CSS Applied.
- OCA: Own CSS Applied.
- ECA: Extra CSS Applied.
Paragraph Actions:
- TA: Text Aligment (left, right, center, justify).
- BL: Bullet List.
- NL: Numeric List.
- ID: Identation.
- OD: Outdentation.
Text Operations:
- SE: Search (button and "Ctrl+F" shortcut).
- SR: Search and Replace (button and "Ctrl+V" shortcut).
Edition Actions:
- UD: Undo (button and "Ctrl+Z" shortcut). Unlimited?
- RD: Redo (button and "Ctrl+Y" shortcut). Unlimited?
- CO: Copying (button and "Ctrl+C" shortcut).
- CU: Cutting (button and "Ctrl+X" shortcut).
- PA: Pasting (button and "Ctrl+V" shortcut).
- PP: Paste as Plain Text (losing any copied style).
- PW: Paste from Word (clean word mess). How effective is it?
- PWA: Paste from Word Autodetection.
| Name | UD | RD | CO | CU | PA | PP | PW | PWA |
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 FCKeditor | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y. You can choose if you want to keep the "Word style" | N |
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| TinyMCE | Y. Se puede hasta llegar a la versión guardada | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
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| Dojo RichTextEditor | N | N | N. No hay un boton directo pero si haces CTRL+C funciona, es por eso que en el caso de los niños se podria considerar que le manca esta funcionalidad, lo mismo pasa con el pegar y cortar | N | N | N | N | N |
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| Spaw | Y | Y | N. No hay un boton directo pero si haces CTRL+C funciona, es por eso que en el caso de los niños se podria considerar que le manca esta funcionalidad, lo mismo pasa con el pegar y cortar | N | N | N | N | N |
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| WYSIWYG | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N |
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Links and Anchors:
- IL: Insert Link.
- AIL: Advanced Insert Link as a popup requesting some info about the link (protocol, target...)
- AA: Add Anchor to be linked.
- LA: Easy interface to Link Anchor.
File Upload:
- GFU: General File Upload to send any kind of file to the server .
- FTF: File Type Filtering (for instance, avoid php files).
- FUC: File User's cuota.
- GFSB: General File Server Browsing and Insertion (instead of simple linking an url).
- IFSB: Image File Server Browsing and Insertion
- VFSB: Video File Server Browsing and Insertion
- MSB: Music File Server Browsing and Insertion
- FSB: Flash File Server Browsing and Insertion
Media inclussion (just linking an url):
- GFI: General File Insertion.
- IFI: Image File Insertion.
- VFI: Video File Insertion.
- MFI: Music File Insertion.
- FFI: Flash File Insertion.
Table and cell Operations:
- TI: Table Insertion.
- TS: Table Size.
- TE: Table Edition (add, delete rows and/or columns).
- CE: Cell Edition (size, colors, aligments)
Web elements
- FFI: Form Fields Insertion.
- HL: Horizontal Lines (HR).
Usability and other tools for easiness:
- ESH: Editor Show/Hide.
- FSM: Full Size Mode
- PV: Preview.
- PR: Printing.
- DD: Drag&Drop for images, blocks of text, tables and every html element.
- TI: Template Include (see fck).
- VS: View Source
- DCE: Double click to Edit.
- EOP: Edit On Place. After an "edit mode" activation, you edit the code in the same place it's shown.
- AS: AutoSave? (every n minutes).
- IEI: Insert Emoticons.
- ICC: Insert custom Character.
- RCM: Rightclick Context Menu (see fck).
- SHC: Show Hidden Chars.
- EZR: Edition Zone Resize.
- UK: Universal Keyboard (see fck)
| Name | ESH | FSM | PV | PR | DD | TI | VS | DCE | EOP | AS | IEI | ICC | RCM | SHC | EZR | UK |
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| FCKeditor | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ? | ? | Y | Y | Y | ? | ? | Y |
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| TinyMCE | Y | Y | Y | Y |
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| Y | N |
| N | Y | Y |
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| ? | ? |
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| Dojo RichTextEditor | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | ? | ? |
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| Spaw | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | ? | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
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| WYSIWYG | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
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Localization
- MLS: Multi Language Support.
- ITE: Interface Translated to English.
- ITS: Interface Translated to Spanish.
- ITC: Interface Translated to Catalan.
- SCE: SpellChecker? (English).
- SCS: SpellChecker? (Spanish).
- SCC: SpellChecker? (Catalan).
- ALD: Automatic user Language Detection (including Right to Left scripting)
AJAX:
- BL: Background loading of elements.
- SAS: "Silent" Auto Save.
- II: Improved interface with blur... effects.
Miscelania:
- IT: Insert Time
- ID: Insert Date
Technical information
Browser Compatibility:
- IE5: Internet Explorer 5.5+
- IE6: Internet Explorer 6.0+
- IE7: Internet Explorer 7+
- FF10: Firefox 1.0+
- FF15: Firefox 1.5+
- SAF: Safari.
- OP6: Opera 6.0+
| Name | IE5 | IE6 | IE7 | FF10 | FF15 | SAF | OP6 |
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| TinyMCE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ? | ? |
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Output generated:
- HTML: HTML 4.0 standard.
- XHTML: XHTML 1.0 standard.
- WIKI: WIKI syntax code.
Adaptability:
- SK: Skinable.
- TC: Toolbar Customization.
- BC: Button Customization.
Server Side Compatiblity Details:
- ILL: Integrated with... Languages List (for instance: PHP, JSP, ASP...)
- SC: Script Compression (see tinyMCE).
Avaliable Plugins
- LAP: List of Avaliable Plugins (for instance: UploadPlugin?, SpellChecker? ...)
Final questions
- Easy to integrate in Moodle?
HTMLArea (not reviewed in this comparative) is the web editor included by default in moodle, so no installation/integration will be needed. Any case the existing HTMLArea delivered with moodle is quite outdated, so if we need to spend time to fix, now days, other products look more appropriate.
Former efforts where done in moodle to integrate TinyMCE so moodle includes a tinyMCE release quite ready to use. We tested it and is buggy (specially on IE7), but we expect it could be fixed updating the tinyMCE to it's last version.
FCKeditor --> Very easy. The interface is so similar (I'd say exactly) with other microsoft software interfaces.
Spaw --> El uso es muy sencillo puesto que es el mismo formato que el Word, pero desde mi punto de vista es demasiado simple para cierto rango de edad y a su vez complicado para niños de temprana edad.
- Quality of the Documentation avaliable for the editor?
FCKeditor We can find the documentation here Spaw No he encontrado grandes cosas sobre este editor
- Quality of the Documentation avaliable to develop plugins?
- Community Activity (evaluate: forums, last release, dissemination...)?
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