Hi Sean Carney,

Sorry for late reply to this,

May i know what is your template provider respond about this question?

Back when I used JCE editor I used a HTML5 doctype with things working as expected. Keep in mind that it might affect paddings and such. Had to do some minor tweaks on a site of mine when I swapped from a HTML4 doctype. As mentioned above, ask the template provider. If they don't know, I say make the jump on your test site and test things out. HTML5 is the way of the future. I wouldn't let SEO be the only reason to make the change.

Arlex, No reply yet from template provider. Will keep you posted.

Josh, Thanks for the input!!
BTW, What editor do you use now? :-). And, why? :-)

With EasyBlog 5, you'll most likely scrap these editors from your site

Sean Carney wrote:

Josh, Thanks for the input!!
BTW, What editor do you use now? :-). And, why? :-)

Your welcome. As for editor choice, I swapped back to TinyMCE. TinyMCE used to be not as good, but they made some good improvements over the years. I don't like how JCE is not very good with right clicking to add text and such. Right click is very important for my users. JCK editor is pretty good, but also had problems with inserting text via right click (in that case it is a permissions issue). Yeah, control V works. However I want to make things as simple as possible for my users.

Also another big deal is that JCE doesn't really use drop down menus for table items, as a result the editor menu ends up getting cluttered quickly. I did some CSS tweaks to make TinyMCE to look a bit more professional as well as making it responsive as seen here:



The main thing is clutter in most editors. I took a little bit of notes when looking over Medium.com and there approach to content editors. However I of course wanted more functionality for my users. So I hid what I could with the TinyMCE options and then used CSS to hide others to maximize the importance of quality options.

Mark,

I am eager to see EasyBlog5 in action. One of my sites is K2 and EasyBlog so I will still need something to edit in K2.

My other site is EasyBlog, EasyDiscuss and EasySocial. It would be cool if the EasyBlog editor could be used in all three of those products! :-)

Josh, thank you for your message about going back to Tiny MCE. Interesting. It would simplify life, that is for sure!

Sean

Sean Carney wrote:

Josh, thank you for your message about going back to Tiny MCE. Interesting. It would simplify life, that is for sure!

If you do go this route, let me know. I could provide some CSS that would make it responsive and remove certain items. I spent a fair amount of time debating out the editors and carefully inspected each and every option. Even when I had my mind made up on which editor, I carefully chose which options to display for the user. We are of course excited to see what EasyBlog5 will offer.

Josh,

I will certainly consider this. There is something to be said for simplicity! I keep getting stuck where I have problems with JCE because it is so powerful and can do so much! :-)

I really should hardly be developing web sites because I am not good at HTML, CSS, PHP, etc... but, I love the Content! :-) And, enjoy playing with Joomla...

Sean

I use editor buttons to make up for the lost functionality. However I assume that the missing buttons you want from JCE cannot be found else where?

Arlex, No reply yet from template provider. Will keep you posted.

Okay Sean, Keep us updated then.