IPD: New Rich Text Editor

by Matt Mecham on December 7, 2005

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I’ve been fighting with IE over the past three days to complete the new IPS rich text editor.

I’ve decided to merge the two editors into one OOP JS file which has a lot more code re-use and is much more efficient. The new RTE loads almost instantly compared to the current IPB one which takes a few seconds to initialize.

I won’t bore you to death why it took three days to write (not least because of irritiating differences between IE and FF which mean you’re effectively writing two editors) and I won’t blather on about the cool new features which include the floating palettes and extensibility.

Instead, I’ll show you a movie.

(Note, there is no AJAX in the RTE currently. The little palettes are DOM styled and wrapped iFrames. I could have used AJAX, but the iFrames are more suitable for this application. I prefer to use the right tool for the job. After all, just because we’ve bought a new hammer, it doesn’t mean we have to use it to bash screws into the wall).

IPD New RTE ( 2.3mb Quicktime .mov )

{ 21 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Korak December 7, 2005 at 5:44 pm

Wow! That’s the best looking rich text editor I’ve ever seen in a CMS.

Great work!!

2 Tim Dorr December 7, 2005 at 5:57 pm

Pretty spiffy.

3 Andy December 7, 2005 at 6:18 pm

How does the RTE handle images Matt or have you not got that far yet? For me the article manager is the most eagerly anticipated function of the CMS and I’m curious to its’ functionality. Would you be ale to expand on its’ feature-set further?

Great work on the editor so far, I particularly like the way the editor retains the state of text formatting. Most other inline editors I have worked with require the formatting to be added as an afterthought, usually by selecting the text after writing and then applying the formatting.

4 rollercoaster375 December 7, 2005 at 6:38 pm

That’s absolutely incredible.

I can’t wait to actually demo it =D

5 Matt December 7, 2005 at 6:38 pm

I miiiiight be able to squeeze in an “Insert Image -> Upload” function into the RTE before IPD v1 is released.

If not, you can add images from around the web via the “Insert Image” palette or use the “Insert IPD Tag” and choose an already uploaded image.

6 James December 7, 2005 at 6:45 pm

That’s a pretty damned amazing RTE.

7 Myr December 7, 2005 at 7:00 pm

Wow! That looks great! I can’t wait to start giving this thing a test drive.

8 Max December 7, 2005 at 7:19 pm

Matt, I want to make sure you remember that us webmasters like to get access to the code while composing in RTE’s. Also, how do you add images? It’s very important to get the thumbnails of images from a directory when adding images to content.

Other then that, looking good!!

9 Wilko December 7, 2005 at 7:27 pm

I cant believe how much better it looks, you’ve really outdone yourself haha.

Hopefully you will be porting it to IPB some time soon? before 3.0?

The more you show of this CMS the more I want it.

10 Jonas December 7, 2005 at 7:32 pm

Looks absolutly amazing. But please please include the feature to limit the formating of text to a fixed set of styles. Not all users can handle the responsability that comes whith free choise of font and color. ;o)

11 Andy December 7, 2005 at 7:37 pm

Yes but unfortunately the more he show’s of this CMS the more we WANT out of it :P I’m looking forward to putting this product through its’ paces. I was also wondering whether the source was accessible like Max pointed out.

12 Don Wilson December 7, 2005 at 7:47 pm

I don’t really care for the icons, but nonetheless, very nice.

13 David December 8, 2005 at 12:54 am

Pretty cool.

14 Fabien December 8, 2005 at 11:16 am

Pretty work !!!

15 Dean Clatworthy December 9, 2005 at 4:33 am

Kudos Matt, this looks absolutely great.

16 Brandon December 10, 2005 at 1:22 am

Damn, Matt, that’s oh so svelte and sexy.

17 Casey April 11, 2006 at 12:24 am

Hey Matt,

I just stumbled across this page looking for a text editor. Your rich text editor looks amazing. Don’t know anything about your work but I was just wondering if it’ll be available for public release anytime soon and on what platform. Thanks.

- Casey

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20 Crazy November 6, 2009 at 11:57 am

Wow! That looks great! I can’t wait to start giving this thing a test drive

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