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.

Firesite logo

I am slowly working on Firesite CMS even though there are thousands of things going on at the moment. It feels like a thousand things anyway. I am about to move to a new apartment. Somehow it seems me and my girlfriend is moving at least once a year. Always a hassle. Anyways, at the moment I am concentrating on the file management replacement.

I am creating a more file manager lookalike interface which is actually very promising. It seems everything you’d want to do is doable using javascript and html only. Below you can see a small screenshot of the unfinished file browser.

Firesite file browser

The one thing I still haven’t decided upon is whether or not to use double click to open a folder or file. Using double click to open folders and files would enable the user to click on a folder to select it and then click the delete button. Very intuitive. To double click an item in the web gui environment to open it however – is not very intuitive.

If I stick to single click to open folders it is more in line with the rest of the application. But then I don’t know how to solve selecting folders for deletion in a simple way.