YUI, tinyMCE and WYMeditor

A few preliminary searches suggest that YUI ‘clobbers’ tinyMCE in a “mash up” scenario. My experience suggests it’s the other way around. I’m sure that tinyMCE scripts will throw a big error list after a jslint.com check. This and other difficulties sent me wandering to WYMeditor—but the demo did not behave in Internet Explorer 6.

So that sent me back to the tinyMCE editor. This turned out to be great (for the moment)! A new “YUI-Based tinyMCE Sample” at SonghaySystem.com shows just how great this is. This design promises to share one tinyMCE editor among multiple blocks marked for editing (browser pop-up blocking must be disabled). This goal differs from what the tinyMCE samples show (multiple editors on one page).

The big promise is that this generic tinyMCE design pattern supports all the lightweight prose editing needs for an entire web server! This is the first time a Songhay System design addresses a primary design goal of the original Web browser: to edit documents as well as display them. The wiki solution is not satisfactory beyond plain text because real people don’t find it fun to learn a special wiki markup language just to show bold, italic and insert links and/or images.

This Blog post records a major, watershed moment for the Songhay System. Finally, after years of doing “strange” and “mysterious” stuff, a data management tool my mother can begin to understand!

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