Aug 02
In part 1, I examined a few of the editors and tried to give some plusses/minuses of each one. At the end, I mentioned markItUp! as a possible editor, but couldn’t make a recommendation due to lack of experience with it.
Now that I’ve used it, I can say definitively that it’s amazing! To be fair, it’s not a true “wysiwyg” editor and is instead a set of buttons and aides for editing some sort of markup language. However, if you are only looking for something that will make editing easier on your users, markItUp is perfect.
Skip the others and go straight to markItUp. You’ll be glad you did.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Hi, this is a really useful roundup.
I have looked into TEH and briefly looked at MarkItUp.
In my view TEH is much better at handling lists and does have more flexibility if you want do change formatting before or after entering text.
Therefore it is great that you have made the effort to make TEH support new RoR releases. It is one caveat still for me though. List handling in TEH seems to add an extra space before bullets and hashes which is not compatible with the textile standard. I have tried to patch that myself, but I seem to miss some space calculation somewhere.
There is another branch of TEH used in Expression Engine where this has been fixed. See
http://github.com/imagehat/ih.textile_editor.ee_addon/tree/master
Do you plan to make that update?