[sakai2-tcc] Sakai 2.8 - CKEditor

[John Bush]

I'm really going to miss the fck editor, the name is so descriptive.

Any idea this might affect things like the kaltura integration or entitybrowser

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On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hello TCC,
>
> I'd like to declare my intention/proposal to make CKEditor available for the Sakai 2.8 release.
>
> I've been working to verify that the integration would work with the most important and expected components supported. The good news is that the general editing experience is pretty good (more accessible, much faster, paste form Word is better) and the file browser works.
>
> There is certainly some work to do before the code freeze, namely some cleanups to how the editor is launched from the different UI technologies. I've been working up a mechanism to "push down" the editor selection and binding so there would be less ongoing maintenance of the UI toolkits. It works well, but needs to be cleaned up a bit.
>
> My intent is that CKEditor 3.x be available in a sort of beta state for 2.8, leaving the default as FCKeditor 2.x. I would encourage that at least one QA server enable it and that we do some significant functional testing. There will be configuration settings that we want to adjust and bugs that we should fix. The user experience also has some changes that should be understood and documented plainly before changing the default editor.
>
> I'm also of the mind that, once the initial testing passes, we should merge the new editor to 2.7.x and allow institutions the opportunity to test and switch earlier than 2.8 without custom patching, etc.
>
> I plan to check the support into a branch (set) so we can do any appropriate technical review and share documentation of the techniques in play and how they could affect tools or UI toolkits of the future. Barring objections, these changes would be checked into the main lines (trunk) for each affected module.
>
> Please let me know if there are concerns with this general approach.
>
> Thanks,
> -Noah
>
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