Urs Hunkler

Mauno,

I have been on holiday and just discovered your and Marc's questions.

• First I see you have done great work to implement a flexible way of editor handling. Great.

• Yes, I think the YUI-RTE should be part of the family.

• No, I don't have the time got get involved into this work in the moment - sorry.

Can anybody of the experienced Moodle developers tell why HTMLarea programmed integration is done the way it is? If there are certain needs for the close integration with the existing option and you don't care for them and just replace all textareas you may break Moodle functionality.

I know that the edit page for resource "Compose a text page" now shows the HTMLeditor for the top textarea and no HTMLeditor for the bottom textarea. When you just replace all textareas with the editor you break Moodle behaviour.

Urs

Dav Glass, the developer of the YUI TRE, wrote the article "Some Notes on the YUI Rich Text Editor".

Ralf's and Brian's postings show that Moodle might go best with a choice for RTEs. Ralf's feature list shows on one hand the need for special features, the limited browser support on the other hand is not mentioned at all.

From Dav's article I read that you won't get both - all features and full browser support.

Moodle may be able to server user needs best with a RTE choice: a slick, fast RTE for everyone and a feature rich editor for special needs.

Techsmith, the company behind camtasia, has started the JING Project for OS X and Windows.

We may have a great visual tool for issue documentation in the Moodle Tracker with annotated images or screen videos.

You may watch me writing the previous sentence when you click on "Urs writes a sentence".

The Video Tour on their website shows how JING is used. It's easy to install and and free service for now. Visual communication and enhanced issue reports in our Moodle tracker on your finger tips.

I am really curious if anybody will use this visual documentation option or if screenshots in the tracker are the better way? We will see ...