- Can't actually provide link text (<a href="#">link text</a>).
- Can't insert images, videos, flash, etc.
- No way to set custom styling, change font size, change font itself, change the font itself.
- Tab doesn't insert tab, but rather removes the highlight.
- No justification.
Compared to other offerings on the market (my main comparison being TinyMCE), this simply offers a quick way to make very simple edits without necessitating the clicking of "save". This sounds like somewhat of a niche market.
1. Providing the link text and a much better interface for inserting links will be provided before production launch. Inserting links is definitely incomplete in the Beta.
2. Inserting images is also missing from the Beta but will be included in the production version. We wanted to show the insert image feature when it was implemented with automatic resizing of the actual image (i.e. not just changing the width/height but resampling the image as well). When it does get implemented, we also plan on releasing drag and drop abilities, auto-sharpening (if you like) and multi-image uploading. We have experience implementing all these features except drag and drop already (see Orbs.com).
3. We have a way to do styling changes using "Named Styles" which are element/class combinations. This is already implemented but not yet exposed because we want to get the interface for it right first.
4. Not sure which context you mean tabs don't work. Probably within the next few days though tab/shift-tab in lists and tables will work as expected. It is on our do very soon list.
5. Justification: Based on our interviews, we found that people were unsatisfied with their editors in 3 key areas that we address. It is probably true that in its Beta state, its usefulness is not all there yet. For a better idea of where SnapEditor will be going in the months ahead, see the "What's Coming" section.
TinyMCE is definitely a major competitor to us. One of the major differences is that TinyMCE cannot do In-Place editing. We don't believe that will be a niche market in the future. Many of the new editors focus only on In-Place editing.
Thank you for your comments Eykanal. We will continue to try and provide features that make SnapEditor the obvious choice of editor. :)
Thanks for the replies. For #4, I mean that when I hit the "tab" key, it doesn't insert a tab, but rather acts as forms normally do... focus moves to the next element on the page, which happens to be something different than the text editor I was working with.
Oh, I see. We'll have to think about that. Since HTML doesn't have the concept of tabstops or dynamic tab positions, this may not work very well in the context of an online WYSIWYG editor.
In the context of word processors, tabbing in a list usually indents and in a table cell usually moves to the next cell so we would probably adopt those for predictability.
What happens outside of that I'm not sure what would be the best. We can probably implement anything and we can also offer configurable options as well. That said, we'll probably have a recommended default based on what we think is best.
- Can't insert images, videos, flash, etc.
- No way to set custom styling, change font size, change font itself, change the font itself.
- Tab doesn't insert tab, but rather removes the highlight.
- No justification.
Compared to other offerings on the market (my main comparison being TinyMCE), this simply offers a quick way to make very simple edits without necessitating the clicking of "save". This sounds like somewhat of a niche market.