[Using Sakai] Sakai's Editor

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi,

Firstly, what version of Sakai are you using? Now to your questions:
1. When I paste a link into the Link box in the editor, even if it  
includes the protocol, it will trim it and choose the right one in the  
dropdown. Do you not get this?

2. The default styles can be adjusted, as Mark mentioned it actually  
is FCKeditor so if you are familiar with the way styles work in FCK  
then you can create your own and even have them as the default. Or add  
more. You can also adjust the layout of the editor if you wish. This  
will require some source hacking however.

2b. Can you send a screenshot of the styles not being applied in the  
rendering of the page after you save? It works for me ok as a Forum  
post (nightly2.sakaiproject.org, 2.5.x build)

3. Spellcheck not working is an issue with the editor, not Sakai. Even  
on the demo page for the latest FCKeditor (http://www.fckeditor.net/ 
demo), the Firefox spell check doesn't work for me (Firefox 3.0.11).  
FCKeditor now ships with its own spellchecker though.


cheers,
Steve

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Steve Swinsburg
Portal Systems Developer
Centre for e-Science
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YT

email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870







On 23 Jun 2009, at 16:28, 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:
> 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?
> 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.
> 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) that may not have  
> these limitations?
> Thanks.
> Marsh Feldman
> -- 
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> Director of Research and Academic Affairs
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> The University of Rhode Island
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