What features would you look for in a WYSIWYG text editor?

[Hazy125]

Hi, a WYSIWYG text editor is essentially what you're using to reply to this post, the one on the forum is based on CKEditor. 

 

I do a fair amount of Web development and one of the things I struggle with is finding the right text editor that's easy to use and fully featured and in the end I usually end up with a hacked, customised version of tinyMCE. It's not a perfect solution so I'm wanting to build a new one from scratch. 

 

I need your help with this, what do you like to see, what don't you like to see, what brand new thing you've never seen you think would be a good inclusion? 

 

Examples of features are things like

• Bold text 
• Lists 
• Fonts 
• YouTube video embedding
• Image uploads 
• Image editors 

And all of that stuff 

 

Cheers guys 

[minibois]

WYSIWYG is great and all, but I really do miss code view we used to have before on this forum. Or even just the ability to add stuff easily via code would be great.

[KuJoe]

The first and only thing I look for in a WYSIWYG editor is the ability to turn it off. I prefer to type out the tags myself rather than have to go back and fix it afterwards.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

5 minutes ago, Minibois said:

WYSIWYG is great and all, but I really do miss code view we used to have before on this forum. Or even just the ability to add stuff easily via code would be great.

 

4 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

The first and only thing I look for in a WYSIWYG editor is the ability to turn it off. I prefer to type out the tags myself rather than have to go back and fix it afterwards.

It's 3 of us then: I would look for a WYSIWYM mode toggle.