[Using Sakai] Sakai's Editor

[Mark Norton]

As far as I know, FCKedit is the default.  You can replace it with 
either TinyMCE or Sferix.  Some configuration is involved.

- Mark Norton

Marshall Feldman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Sakai, so please bear with me. I am finding three 
> shortcomings with Sakai's built-in editor:
>
>    1. I often cut and paste links from the address field of my browser
>       and insert them into my course. When I copy a link, it includes
>       the full URI, protocol and all. However, Sakai's editor has a
>       separate field for the protocol, so one cannot just cut and
>       paste the link. Is there a way around this?
>    2. The built-in editor has other issues. For example, it has a
>       style drop-down, but displays only five styles. The default
>       paragraph style (blank) is not one of these. "Title H3" is one
>       of them, but what happened to H1, H2, H4, etc.? There is no
>       "more" choice for styles not currently listed. Some of the
>       tooltips are worthless (e.g., the one for Source). When I use
>       the editor to post something on a forum, headings display fairly
>       well in the editor, but in the post they are rendered almost
>       indistinguishable from other text in the message.
>    3. On a Windows PC, may standard keystrokes do not work with
>       Sakai's editor (e.g., Ctrl-Backspace to erase the word to the
>       left). Also, Sakai's editor seems hidden from standard browser
>       features (e.g., Firefox 3's built-in spell checking, which works
>       with almost every web application I use besides Sakai). Is there
>       any way around these limitations? For instance, can one
>       configure Sakai to use by default a different embedded editor
>       (such as FCKeditor <http://www.fckeditor.net/>) that may not
>       have these limitations?
>
> Thanks.
> Marsh Feldman
> -- 
> Dr. Marshall Feldman, PhD
> Director of Research and Academic Affairs
>
> Center for Urban Studies and Research
> The University of Rhode Island
> email: marsh @ uri .edu (remove spaces)
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