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It isn't so bad... and I also like elFInder.

By the way, it hasn't right-click contestual menues (more intuitive and fast to reach and manage objects properties like tables, images etc...).

It doesn't support so many languages as ckeditor...

I personally feel better with ckeditor...

@ Trustmaster: When you think to insert WYSIWYG editor and HTMLPurifier support in Cotonti?... I'm wondering if we can have it in Siena... (Siena development is three month late indeed...).

We will bundle Siena with CKEditor. Other good news is that elFinder is compatible with CKEditor, so it's a great free replacement for CKFinder.

As for WYSIWYG, HTMLPurifier and Siena, see the latest news on index page.

There is a small problem about HTMLPurifier and CKEditor: as these are LGPL, commercial derivatives will have to exclude them from the package or require commercial licenses. But currently there are no such derivatives and most users shouldn't care about this.

just curious wouldn't that file thing a good thing for the pfs?

btw. the file thing already published in that ckeditor plugin has a neat function for directly manipulating images... i read somewhere about in the php files of the elFinder that there is a possibility to connect different image manipulating librarys. sounded interessting too.

Added 127 days later:

any news on this topic here?

All details are clear by now and this is the next thing I'm going to implement:

1. Default parsing mode will be HTML. BBcodes will be converted to HTML.
2. Alternatively, there will be an option when migrating to Siena to keep bbcodes and disable HTML.
3. There will be only one field to store text, no more page_html or fp_html. The actual sequence will be as this (in pseudocode):
   

   $text = get_post_contents();
   $text = apply_html_filters($user_group[, $special_location]); // Filter settings are based on user group, there also will be optional sets for special locations
   $text = apply_bbcodes(); // Applies bbcodes over html, if there are any. Good to make shortcuts or special things like [hide]
   $t->assign('SOME_VAR', $text);

4. HTMLPurifier will be present as a plugin (on by default).
5. CKEditor will be used as default editor.

New features are only added to Major versions, minor versions only receive fixes. Adding features into an already released Version can cause confusion and problems.