I was sure I'd released this version, but it seems not. I'm sure I had a plan. I'm sure I've forgotten what my plan was. I haven't had a chance to add more configurability yet.

Anyway, these are the changes in version 0.3 of the TinyMCE plugin for Habari:

  • Make sure there's a default mode.
  • Set options in updated_config() rather than when loading the page.
  • More flexible method of setting options.
  • Append the user ID to the saved options so users can have different settings.
  • Use ->admin_page for checking publish page.
Rick Cockrum writes about wysiwyg editors for Habari, noting that Habari's editor uses raw HTML by default. That might be fine for techie geeks, but is unlikely to go far in the long run. The first option you have is to use an alternative HTML-izible markup, and there are plugins available for Textile and Markdown (actually two for Markdown, here and here, though I really wish they could merge into one version). That may still be too geeky for most. The second alternative is to use one of the recently released WYSIWYG plugins, of which there are three. ...
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