Monday, June 23, 2008

A pain in the editor...

When I launched the site, I wanted a uniform text editor for the users to use all over the site. In the forums, in the blogs, in the private messages, etc.. I settled on the default FCK editor for the time being with the plan to move toward CuteEditor or something else as time and finances allowed.

After the hardware drama, I started getting tons of complaints from many different users that they couldn't post or were getting a ton of errors in the forums. It seems that the FCK editor is not very freindly to MAC users and users of browsers other than IE... I tried to work through it, but finally I'd had enough of the whining. I disabled the FCK editor and made all the forums use just a default text box. The complaints have died down. People now have a hard time posting photos and urls, but they're working through it.

I fully plan on implementing the CuteEditor soon. Right now my budget is tight, but within the next few months, I'll have it up and running. I'm really excited about the possibilites that CuteEditor creates.. Online image editing, user uploading and whatnot.. When I get closer, I'll share more information on my implementation. I have the demo version up and running, I'm just trying to figure out how to recompile it with the changes that I'm trying to make...

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