[Building Sakai] FCKeditor improvement?

[branden at uwindsor.ca]

This didn't seem to pick up too much interest on the lists, but if anyone 
was silently following:

http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-16371

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

Branden Visser/University of Windsor wrote on 14/05/2009 11:35:43 AM:

> Branden Visser/University of Windsor 
> 14/05/2009 11:35 AM
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> FCKeditor improvement?
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> 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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