Html Editor? A Must Have Feature

[dotsona]

Hey Guys,

I was wondering if you had any plans to add an html editor. I think its pretty essential when it comes to updating and managing your wordpress website.

Best,
Andrew

[NullVoxPopuli]

Seconded - especially for things like tables - the current table plugin is so barebone.

[JordanReiter]

Thirded, just let people view the HTML source. It's something people have come to expect.

[NullVoxPopuli]

Implementing things because people expect it though isn't the right way to go. There is just simply more freedom, if you know what you are doing.

[JordanReiter]

How is there more freedom if you're not letting people view the source? I realize I can create my own plugin that effectively pops up a window or something with the value of .html() but why not just offer it built-in?

[ghost]

Why don't use Firebug as HTML-Editor?

[JordanReiter]

That seems like a non-solution for creating a wysiwyg for normal users.
Since there's no interest in this I suppose I'll just write my own plugin
when I need to use it.
On Apr 10, 2012 8:21 AM, "limboo" <
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Why don't use Firebug as HTML-Editor?

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[ghost]

are normal users familiar with HTML? If i know html firebug etc are much more comfortable to me :-)

[JordanReiter]

Yes, normal users are more familiar with html tags than they are with using
the developer tools of a browser. But you clearly disagree, so if I ever do
use aloha, I'll just make a fork.
On Apr 10, 2012 8:32 AM, "limboo" <
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wrote:

are normal users familiar with HTML? If i know html firebug etc are much
more comfortable to me :-)

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[NullVoxPopuli]

I know this is a terrible comparison: but think about CKeditor. They have source view. Lets say a user happens to know how to add a border or background color to table cells. It's much easier to use the html editor, until a specific feature is implemented. I agree, There probably is a way to do everything through a UI. But the HTML editor, as I see it, is a, "have this until we fully implement every feature" feature.

[JordanReiter]

@DerNalia I see now that I misunderstood your earlier comment. Looks like we're in agreement that an HTML source editor is a good idea; I personally think it should be there because it's an expected feature; every other WYSIWYG has it to overcome the inherent limitation of all WYSIWYG interfaces.

[NullVoxPopuli]

right. =D

[evo42]

To view the source, there will be a plugin merged into the dev branch.
#501

This plugin shows the HTML source code of an editable and position of the cursor in it.

Editing the HTML source is not supported right now. Could maybe added to this "sourceview" plugin ...

Reference: https://getsatisfaction.com/aloha_editor/topics/view_html_source

[JordanReiter]

I'm not sure if I'm going to be using Aloha or not, but if I ever need to use it and source editing isn't supported yet, I'll be happy to implement it.

[NullVoxPopuli]

Aloha has an excellent vision for the future of What You See Actually Is What you Get editors, and their architecture is rock solid. Definitely consider it =D

[evo42]

@JordanReiter that's a good deal ;-)

[patrickgalbraith]

In case this helps anyone else you can modify the view source panel (from the Boilerplate demo) into a source editor fairly easily. See Andrew Eddy's comment here https://getsatisfaction.com/aloha_editor/topics/view_html_source#reply_8584050

[kuraga]

+1 for source code edit mode

[neohunter]

+1 for view source.

[JoyceBabu]

+1 for source edit

[jifka]

+1
Has there been any traction on this? This is a basic/expected feature of ANY editor, inline or not. I was in the midst of an aloha-editor implementation when I came across this missing feature. Stunned, really. I dig the editor, but wish it had this feature. Users will most certainly expect it.

[kitsirota]

+1
This is definitely at the top of our list also. Looking through the various forks, it appears the wysiwhat team wrote a custom plugin for this, but I dont think it is able to edit the source.
https://github.com/wysiwhat/Aloha-Editor/tree/master/src/plugins/extra/sourceview