[Building Sakai] FCKeditor improvement?

[Johns, Cheryl]

Yes, our users are pretty frustrated with the paste from Word option as well.  Much of the formatting is lost or just plain not correct when it comes through in the FCK editor.

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of branden at uwindsor.ca
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:36 AM
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Subject: [Building Sakai] FCKeditor improvement?


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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