http://blog.moxiecode.com Moxiecode Developer Blog, talking about things we come across. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:43:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you first visit the TinyMCE website and check out the examples, you see a very advanced editor, in terms of the share number of functions. But as with most software, the real power is what is behind that graphical interface, the structure and quality of the code, the way ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/11/12/the-power-of-configuration/ I am guessing noone has avoided noticing the financial crisis in the news, going through the world like a wave through an arena crowd. Can't really say we have noticed it on our end though, this month will be a record in visitors for the TinyMCE website, as well as ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/10/30/using-open-source-in-a-time-of-crisis/ There have been lots of fuzz and development of small rich text editors lately and I think it's time to comment on the these. I will try to explain why size matters. Some users argue that TinyMCE is bloated and that it can be written way smaller if we rewrite it ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/10/24/why-size-matters/ TinyMCE is not always the perfect match if you need something really small and simple. TinyMCE is designed to be a CMS editor and it has all the features that you might need for such a task. Some times you want something really small and simple for example on a forum ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/10/13/if-you-need-something-smaller-than-tinymce-try-punymce/ I think I have found the answer, noone reads it anyway, if you look at the TinyMCE forum, 75%-90% of the questions have direct answers in the documentation (or even the FAQ), and the replies to it is simple "check the documentation" followed by a "brilliant, thanks!". In my opinion, TinyMCE ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/10/06/why-does-open-source-software-lack-documentation/ As you may have noticed we now have a proper logo for TinyMCE. In other news, we are working hard on a new version of the MCFileManager and MCImageManager, quite a lot of code re-working but not so much on the outside look and feel. Also expect a small update to ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/10/01/new-times-new-things/ Yes, we released our new TinyMCE website design, fitting the forum and all examples into the design and menu system. Design is made by Arcsin.se, very nice work, a pleasure to work with. But, he doesn't design logos, so we launched a contest with 99Designs.com where the winner will get 1000 ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/11/new-website-and-tinymce-logo-design-contest/ There is a lot of buzz going on now about the new Google Chrome browser, and a lot of different testing of its performance against other browsers. We take performance very seriously, thousands of ppl use TinyMCE every day, it is important that it works smooth on the browsers, not just ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/04/browser-performance-chrome-compared/ What the hell... this Wordpress installation got completely nuked with spam the last few weeks, even tho comments require moderation, it's still hundreds of posts to go through. I have removed the option to post comments here, and I had to actually remove the physical file from the harddrive cause even ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/09/02/seriously-all-this-spam/ Yes, we managed to have ourselves some vacation time this summer, Spocke is currently traveling in Europe and I have been spending some time in my families cabin this summer. I wish I could write a piece of code to exterminate all mosquitos. Our office is being rebuilt still, but its ... http://blog.moxiecode.com/2008/08/04/vacation-vacation-vacation/