HTML editor 2.0

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

What we want

Requirements

• Integration - With Moodle (smileys, different formats, etc.) with a minimum of changes
• 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.

Features

Some features that should be evaluated:

• Handling of Word documents
• HTML code direct editing
• Image uploading
• Mathematical formulas 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)

Ticket MDL-11113 discusses most issues.

Possibilities and evaluation

• Comparison of WYSIWYG HTML editors on Wikipedia
• TinyMCE: Compatibility, Documentation, Demo
• FCKeditor: Compatibility Documentation, Demo
• Xinha: Documentation, Demo
• Yahoo RTE: Documentation, Demo,

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

Links to forum discussions, tracker, docs, etc.

• [https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-11113 MDL-11113 - Get a fully working HTML editor in Moodle]
• Using Moodle: What is the current position with the HTML editor?
• Moodle-specific_customisations_to_the_HTML_editor