Comments on: FCKEditor vs. TinyMCE

By: Comparing TinyMCE and CKEditor | Learning the World

Comparing TinyMCE and CKEditor | Learning the World — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:55:56 +0000

[...] WebTecker: FCKEditor vs. TinyMCE [...]

By: Hasznos PHP eszközök és osztályok II. | PHP Blog magyarul

Hasznos PHP eszközök és osztályok II. | PHP Blog magyarul — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:27:56 +0000

[...] egyik az FCKeditor, a másik a TinyMCE. Rovid összehasonlítást a következ? címen találunk: http://webtecker.com/2008/04/02/fckeditor-vs-tinymce/. Annyit f?znék az ott olvashatóakhoz, hogy a TinyMCE alá is létezik ingyenes böngész? vagy [...]

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:51:26 +0000

Can you have a button for people to incorporate RSS feeds in either FCK or Tiny? If so, do you know where I could find information on how to do so?

By: FCKEditor vs. TinyMCE | Phine Solutions

FCKEditor vs. TinyMCE | Phine Solutions — Fri, 30 May 2008 02:59:21 +0000

[...] and perform nicely in the demo. Now comes to the question which one to pick. This article has a nice comparison between the [...]

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:39:17 +0000

Hi Brett!
I really enjoyed your post!
Do you know if is it possible writing plugins to do something like create a tag xml in Tiny?

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By: coupon

coupon — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:04:50 +0000

Hello, Is FCK is lighter than Tiny ?

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:35:15 +0000

@Nicholas - Its nice to hear from you. First I’d like to say that the data in the tables are from my own personal experience and my clients experience with FCK and Tiny. I would love to see your benchmark data if you can supply it.

As for Customization, writing the same plugin that I have in Tiny for FCK took me a lot longer and was just annoying. I still use both Tiny and FCK in various projects based on what is required. It is great to hear from you and look forward to hearing back from you.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:42:54 +0000

On my benchmarks, it turns out you are wrong, render time on local instance, thus not concerning download time, FCK is indeed much faster than tiny when rendering time is concerned. There are still problems IMHO, for example FCK renders much slower in firefox than in Internet Explorer or Safari.

I don’t know how you found out that FCK is less customizable, but if I need customizability, I’ll choose FCK, tiny is really not near as customizable as FCK. You can customize all aspects from toolbar and stiles and also create custom plugins that can affect rendering, and functionality of the editor. Would like to see your comment on this.

By: Nihad

Nihad — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:55:26 +0000

You are saying that you have to pay for the image-upload pluing for tiny, but this is not true. You can use the iBrowser pluing (for free http://j-cons.com/downloads/) it works great. No need to buy the original one from tiny itself.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:21:51 +0000

That comparison table looks very biased towards tiny mce lol

By: mullie

mullie — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:46:07 +0000

tinymce does things like putting inside -tags; can’t really call that valid xhtml, can we?…
i don’t know about fckeditor however, will try it out now

By: Edwin

Edwin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:48:32 +0000

This whole afternoon and evening I worked with TinyMCE to get it more what I want it to be and I figured out that tinymce isn’t perfect either. Actually I think they’re both even good. The only better point of tinymce is now that they got the spell-checker. FCK-editor will have that in version 2.8 too, but that will be a long time waiting I think, cause they are now in version 2.6… Another cool thing if tinymce is the filemanager, but that costs a lot of money. If that was included for free, I think the choise was easily made. For now I still haven’t made my choise…

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:29:24 +0000

Its great to hear from everyone.
@Ryan Rose - I believe it only works in IE.

By: Ryan Rose

Ryan Rose — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:57:43 +0000

FCKEditor has an option for this in the config file. If you set it to true, every time the user attempts to paste something into the editor a popup will appear asking the user to paste their text into the popup. The popup is a textarea that strips the content of all HTML and pastes the stripped-text into the editor.

By: serega

serega — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:57:41 +0000

great article
i decide to use tiny on my website http://www.guru.ua
thanks

By: Niall Doherty

Niall Doherty — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:59:14 +0000

What I hate most about rich text editors is that they don’t strip the formatting of text that’s copied and pasted. I know they have toolbar buttons to do this, but a lot of users have no clue what that’s for. They have to be trained.

Still, these two are the best rich text editors out there. I mostly use TinyMCE myself.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:12:50 +0000

Thanks everyone for giving your Opinion.
@Edwin - Thanks for getting this post on the forums. Hopefully we get some more opinions.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:38:03 +0000

Personally i prefer TinyMCE, beacuse of it’s ease of coustomiseation. It is a slick little editor and you can easily write your own image management pop-ups without having to buy their own.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:27:51 +0000

used to use fck and it was ok, a client needed a spellchecker so i swapped to tinyMCE and bought the additional image manager. havent looked back since, installation was easy turning functions on and off is simple. spellchecker great!

neither have very good image resizing though, i had to write this in myself so that the image could be resized in the editor but was dynamically resized for the browser.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:08:21 +0000

Hi Brett, I’ve emailed both the developers and put the question on both forums of each of the developer-website with a link to this place, I hope we will get more reactions these days And CSS Globe picked up the discussion too, so I am sure many people will read it. We haven’t a clear answer right now which one is better, maybe they are just even good?