We have gotten a few questions regarding the supported features of Plupload and what they mean exactly.

Chunking

Chunking is smart, it will allow you to upload files regardless of how large they are. Normally server environments have a limitation how much they can store in memory, normal upload forms put everything in memory and dumps it down when the whole file is received.  With chunking, you can continue to upload even if the memory has a low limit cause the file is chunked into smaller parts and saved every x kilobytes.

PNG and JPEG resizing

Support for resizing means that images can be resized by the client, before they are uploaded to the server, saving a lot of bandwidth. Lets say you are uploading your vacation photos, instead of uploading a 2560×1600 image it will be resized down to a more web-suitable 640×480 image, saving a lot of space and making the upload quicker. Also this will use the client browser to resize the image and not the server resources.

Type Filtering

By type filtering we simply mean the option to select only a certain type of files, such as only .jpg etc.

Drag & Drop

This feature has been limited to Java Applets for so long now, but support for Drag & Drop is starting to look better in more of these supported ways to upload and we will continue to monitor their progress.

Fallback

A good approach when setting up Plupload is to configure your runtimes as optimal as possible, we would recommend the following order of fallback.

• Google Gears (best feature support)
• Silverlight (good support)
• Browserplus (good support)
• Flash (good support, best client spread)
• html5 (bad support, bad client spread)

Once html5 becomes more spread and usable, we would suggest putting it on top.

Why Flash so far down? Well actually after Google Gears (our personal favorite) the other plugins all have their faults and are rather similar. If chunking is required for you, remove HTML5 and Browserplus from the runtimes since they do not have support for chunking.

There are a few more options/features but they are quite simple and you should be able to figure them out if you check the documentation.

On another note, we will be making an update sometime soon with better buttons for uploading, a lot of ppl seemed to have missed the little “Play/Upload” icon on the right side of the UI and clicked the grey form send button instead.

If you want to contribute, be sure to visit the project on GitHub.

Using Plupload you can upload multiple files using Google Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or HTML5. Flexible configuration allows you to choose all or only some of these upload “runtimes” with fallback in the order you specify. The license is GPL for you to enjoy.

There are a few really interesting features available, such as:

• Drag  & drop.
• Client side image resizing before upload.
• Select file type filtering.
• Chunking to allow uploading huge files without any problems.

Want to try it out?

Check out the website.

Note that some features only work with some runtimes and browsers, check the feature list on the Plupload website for more information. Also note that this is a first release version and may contain some bugs.

And if you are interested in the source, you can fork the project on GitHub.

Enjoy!

The latest move from SVN to GitHub is one step in our effort to reach out more to our community. If you go to our TinyMCE GitHub project, you can get RSS feeds for commits and all kinds of stuff. We now have over 100 followers on GitHub!

Another step is that we have added Twitter links on our TinyMCE website so you can follow this blog and forum news. The TinyMCE twitter (www.twitter.com/tinymce) will also take all TinyMCE related blog posts from this website, and the Moxiecode twitter (www.twitter.com/moxiecode) will only take everything from this blog and not the TinyMCE forum news.

For a while back we have also a Facebook page, sign up to show your support.

We are hard at work tweaking the latest version of TinyMCE, and there hasn’t been any major bugs found in the beta even though this is a big rewrite of certain parts.

I went over the different CMS that won or became runners up in each category to check who uses TinyMCE. I downloaded the package or checked their online demo to verify.

Most Promising Open Source CMS Category

ImpressCMS – TinyMCE included by default.

Pixie – TinyMCE included by default.

Pligg – Not included, integration instructions exists, seems they have no default editor?

Best Open Source PHP CMS

Drupal – TinyMCE is a downloadable module (everything in Drupal is modules), seems to be extremely popular.

WordPress – TinyMCE included by default.

Joomla – TinyMCE included by default.

Best Other Open Source CMS

Plone – TinyMCE included by default in upcoming release.

dotCMS – TinyMCE included by default.

mojoPortal – TinyMCE included but also other editors, not known if it is turned on by default or not.

UPDATE:

Overall best Open Source CMS

This category was announced after I made this post.

WordPress – Already mentioned above.

SilverStripe – TinyMCE included by default.

MODx – TinyMCE included by default.

Source website: http://www.packtpub.com/award

Out of 11 different Open Source CMS, TinyMCE is included by default in 9 of them! If you make the same check towards commercial CMS you would probably find a similar figure. The download figures for TinyMCE on Sourceforge pales in comparison with the figures these different Open Source CMS has.

TinyMCE is without doubt the most used WYSIWYG editor out there, thank you all for that.

From version 4 of Plone, TinyMCE will be the default editor, replacing Kupu.

Rob Geitema has made some excellent work in integrating the editor into Plone.

There was a Plone conference covering (amongst other things) the upcoming TinyMCE integration, check out the recording on Rob Geitema blog.

Very nice integration work!

We thought we should share some info about some updates coming to TinyMCE.

The next TinyMCE release will probably be a slight jump in version numbers and have release candidates due to the massive code rewrite on certain parts. I won’t go into details regarding the changes, but it should mean even more flexibility, better performance, smaller codebase (not an easy achievement) and better sync in functionality between browsers. This update is still far away and there might be other updates in the meantime, but just so you know, we are hard at work with continually improving the editor!

On another note, we are looking into moving TinyMCE to Github, we haven’t quite decided it yet, still a lot to learn about Git, but it should mean that it gets easier for external developers to contribute code in the long run.

Also, some addition to the last post, After the Deadline spell checker is also available as a TinyMCE plugin, check their website! It is the best spell checker for TinyMCE hands down. We are looking into talking with Automattic about possibly including it in the base package of TinyMCE (get in touch guys!).

Check out this video of WordPress new spellchecker, it uses AI to not only spellcheck words, but also check your grammar and make suggestion on changes to your text.

It is in by default in the hosted WordPress, but can also be installed in your self-hosted WordPress blog, it replaces the built in spellchecker in TinyMCE.

The spell checker is called “After the Deadline” and is aquired by Automattic, congrats to a great spellchecker.

Check out the plugin and how to install it here.

Yes, finally, we will be away during July, support will slow down a but during the summer, but we will be checking in on the forums and email once in a while.

It’s 30C in the shade here today, cya in August!

/Moxiecode Team

We had some wicked weather here in Sweden this weekend, lets hope it keeps up like this.

Haven’t been a lot of activity here on the blog the last few weeks, we are currently busy with a few huge projects that we need to finish before the summer vacation times. Speaking of vacation, during July our offices are closed, we will respond to emails and moderate the forum as much as possible, but don’t expect a quick answer.

The nominations for “Best Project” in SourceForge community awards are closed, the finalists will be announced on the 22nd, then we will need your help again with votes!

Enjoy summer!

Spocke has been working hard trying to solve the issue with pasting in various browsers, cleaning up MS Office junk etc. The result is that the new paste plugin is now included in the SVN trunk and will be released with the next TinyMCE version sometime very soon.

On other news, Microsoft has implemented TinyMCE in their many forums, MSDN, Technet, Answers, Expression and the http://social.microsoft.com/Forums.