Problem/Motivation

We purposely several releases back while adding CKEditor 5 support kept in CKEditor 4 as well (so basically duplicating text formats).

However since now CKEditor 4 is officially marked unsupported, its probably time to remove it sooner then later.

I know of 1 or 2 problems that still exist that we have to address and will add them as related tasks in a day or so.

Steps to reproduce

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Proposed resolution

Remove CKEditor 4 and ensure no regressions in the switch over.

Remaining tasks

TODO

User interface changes

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API changes

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Data model changes

N/a

Comments

sylus created an issue. See original summary.

joseph.olstad’s picture

joseph.olstad
Primary language French
commented

There's ckeditor lts available

https://www.drupal.org/project/ckeditor_lts

Many aren't ready to switch to ck5

skaught’s picture

skaught
Primary language English
commented

ckeditor-lts seems to use a licensed version of ck4. it would be good for people to know that's an option for them. Assuming develop cost is the reason people aren't ready I would guess that this PRODUCT may push them into progressing their sites..

https://www.drupal.org/docs/extending-drupal/contributed-modules/contrib...

"CONTACT SALES" https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-4-support

joseph.olstad’s picture

joseph.olstad
Primary language French
commented

There's currently no packagist warning when using ckeditor4.

I expect we'll be using ckeditor4 for a long while yet. There's a lot of use cases that haven't been covered and edge cases to fully review. Also, we will want to keep ckeditor4 for archived content possibly for several years.

The archived or unchanged content should still be rendered with the same format it was published on. Changing text formats could introduce surprises. Before removal it will require scripting to change all the text formats (at your own risk).

I suspect it will be a very long time before ckeditor4 will truely go away. We haven't even started using ckeditor5 yet.

smulvih2’s picture

smulvih2
Location Canada 🍁
commented

Agreed, will need to support CKE4 for a while. Seeing some issues particularly with migrated content coming from Canada.ca, and some existing data on sites being upgraded. CKE5 with it's new plugins are too restrictive. For sites with just new content authored in CKE5 it seems to work pretty well though.

sylus’s picture

sylus commented
Status: Active » Postponed
smulvih2’s picture

smulvih2
Location Canada 🍁
commented
Status: Postponed » Fixed

We have since removed CKEditor4 from WxT. We have had enough time to fix common CKEditor5 issues and now even have contrib modules to help (ex. ckeditor5_table_fix)

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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