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HTML editor 2.0

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This page details the specification of the HTML editor in Moodle 2.0.

What we want

Ticket MDL-11113 discusses most issues.

Requirements

  • Integration - With Moodle (smileys, different formats, etc.) with a minimum of changes, cleaning up current code as much as possible
  • Compatibility - With web browsers (mostly FF, IE, Safari, Opera)
  • Standard - Outputs valid XHTML code
  • Accessibility - Is it 100% keyboard accessible? Is it usable in JAWS? Etc.
  • Configurability - Possibility to make it show different options and buttons according to the user, the context, etc.
  • Support - Developed by an active community that will support it for a long time.

Features

Some features that should be evaluated:

  • Handling of Word documents
  • HTML code direct editing
  • Highlighting (not text background color, with "set-on" operation--Word style)
  • Image uploading
  • Mathematical formulas/equation editing
  • Possible to turn it on and off on demand (on the page) without losing (modified) content
  • Right-to-left text input
  • Smileys (has to be possible to use the Moodle list of smileys)
  • Special characters
  • Tables
  • Themeable (possible to make a theme that fits with Moodle's)

Wishes

  • Make it possible to change to a different editor (provided someone comes up with the necessary code to "plug it" in Moodle)
  • Possible to run many instances on the same page (see MDL-11101 in tracker)
  • Fix all the bugs related to the HTML editor
  • Submit drafts in the background, using ajax.

Possibilities and evaluation

As of 16 April 2008, the preference goes to TinyMCE.

Links to forum discussions, tracker, docs, etc.

Using Moodle General developer forum discussions:

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