[Building Sakai] FCKeditor improvement?

[branden at uwindsor.ca]

Hi everyone,

We handle quite a few support calls with FCKeditor and pasting from Word. 
I think this comes from FCK's best effort attempt at sanitizing a "Paste" 
from word, when users don't use the "Paste from Word" function. Users 
simply don't Preview (should they have to if it's a WYSIWYG editor?), and 
they simply don't think to use the "Paste from Word" icon. The result is 
that what they saw is definitely not what they got.

There are a couple possible solutions to this offered in FCK, but they all 
have pretty dominant disadvantages:

1. Force paste as plain text. Obvious disadvantage is that you can no 
longer have rich text pastes, as it disables the "Paste from Word" icon
2. Auto-detect pastes from Word. Disadvantage is that it only works for 
IE, and can amplify the problem of people not using "Paste from Word"

Does every other institution share this headache? I've found out how to 
trick FCKeditor into not disabling the "Paste from Word" function in 
solution #1 if ForcePastePlainText is enabled -- is this a desirable 
configuration for anyone? Can anyone think of any obvious reasons why we 
wouldn't want to make this change?

Thanks,
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Branden Visser
LMS Application Programmer - Information Systems Services
Information Technology Services
University of Windsor
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