By reikiman on

I've converted to drupal on my site (http://7gen.com/) and installed the fckeditor module. It's working, but it's also very slow to initialize.

e.g. there's a long pause on initially entering a page that has the fckeditor ... and if I make a URL link, the dialog for that takes a very long time to initialize.

It does this regardless of how often I run the fckeditor. Meaning that the browser isn't caching the objects associated with the editor(???).

It's so slow that I've turned off fckeditor.

The real issue here is that I'm building a different site for a community of neophytes ... while I can handle entering HTML and would appreciate e.g. the URL Filter ... my users will be wanting a WYSIWYG experience, but the slowness of fckeditor is also going to turn them off.

Any ideas?

The only idea I've come up with so far is standalone blog editors ... e.g. I tried ecto earlier today and it seems okay with drupal. Perhaps w.bloggar will be also?

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matt westgate’s picture

matt westgate commented

Give TinyMCE a try:

http://drupal.org/project/tinymce

jags-1’s picture

jags-1 commented

TinyMce is worst than Fckeditor. Another problem with Fckeditor is the width of the page. I think the solution would be to can install one own drupal editor like a module called "Editor". Only is a idea!!!

matt westgate’s picture

matt westgate commented

Why is TinyMCE worse that Fckeditor? It seems most people would disagree with you.

jags-1’s picture

jags-1 commented

Because the things I want do with a editor I cannot do with Tiny, like URL...Tiny is too basic. Fckeditor is more complet...All depends what do you need, no?

matt westgate’s picture

matt westgate commented

TinyMCE has different modes. Here's the advanced mode, for example.

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true

reikiman’s picture

reikiman commented

Some time ago I'd been looking around on these forums for hints on debugging the fckeditor installation ... (BTW, there's some good data on the forums about installing fckeditor, which isn't at all a straightforward task)

Along the way I came across a note implying that drupal people had decided fckeditor was the best, and that the other editor modules were going to be abandoned in favor of fckeditor.

Did I misunderstand?

David Herron - http://7gen.com/

+ David Herron - 7gen.com/, The Long Tail Pipe, davidherron.com/drupal-blogging-hints

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oNyx commented

I also had lots of trouble with FCKeditor and only got it so so working... its also a real performance hog. It even wastes performance when that tab (firefox) isn't even active... eg scrolling in other tabs is slow as long as I have a tab somewhere with FCKeditor.

Well, duh.

TinyMCE was way easier to install and its performance is also much better. But its not perfect either. The button's toggle state isn't visible, backspace/del behave a bit weird (sometimes) and image uploading relys on image_assist and the image module.

IMHO TinyMCE is clearly the better choice right now.