Busy – taking a pause
I have been way too busy the last couple of weeks. I’m working on a flashy new portal as well as my old content management system Firesite CMS. In Firesite I have always used a rather limited but ok wysiwyg editor for html content authouring. In a recent project I realized that the editor just didn’t cut it anymore. I started looking at the alternatives.
I wasn’t very happy with wither either FCKeditor or any of the alternatives as they were either bloated or badly implemented or both. To be honest I didn’t do a very thorough analysis. But as stupid as I can be at time I told myself that I could do it better. Another voice (?) instantly challenged me with the words “prove it”.
Implementing things like a good and simple extensions api, i18n and theming and still keep the total file size to a minimum is not that easy… Well it is finally starting to evolve into something really nice. I won’t release the source yet as I want the basic features to be rock solid but here is a nice little screenshot of the editor in Swedish using a Gnome theme.
FireEditor - wysiwyg editor in Firesite. The icons are made by my girlfriend for another project.
Starting this weekend I will take a couple of days off and attend the PHP Conference in Frankfurt. I really hope it will be as good as when I was there in 2003. It would be fun to know if there are more people coming down from Sweden. If you’d fancy a beer or two in the bar with a fellow Swedish just send me an email through my contact form.
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