Obout ASP.NET HTML Editor

Thanks everyone for your comments and recommendations.  Sam, you have all the valid points and we'll see what we can accomplish in the next few days about it.

We think that if C# Corner implemented the newer editor version, then everyone would have a better experience.  Mahesh, if you need our help, you know how to contact me :)

I would love to hear more ideas or comments.  Don't be afraid to bash us.  That's what makes the product better at the end.

Monday, we will have new version of Editor implemented (same on Obout website). Let's see how it is and get some feedback on this editor. We will go from there.

Okay now for supporting code. That can be done in stages. The first stage should be to not mess with the pre tags. The pre tags must be allowed to work the way the standard says. We should not have to put the
tags at the end of each line; the lines should be formatted as they exist. The data between

 tags should not be messed with. That is how the 
 tags are supposed to work!

Many editors have a problem with tab characters. Most editors convert them to spaces. I think that is acceptable as a first stage; just fix the other things above and get the 
 tags working the way they work in HTML that has not been edited by the editor.

A huge improvement would be to support tab characters in the sense that code is formatted the way we expect it to be and it has tabs in it when we copy the code to the clipboard. If that can be accomplished then that can be quite impressive. It is difficult to do due to the way HTML is designed but it is a challenge with significant benefits when it is solved. Tab characters could be converted to/from 	 or something like that. I hope the editor does not mess up 	 but it is ampersand sharp zero nine semicolon, which is HTML code for a tab character.

Okay I wrote a list. Let me check it again to see who is naughty and who is nice; ooops, different list.

One thing that needs to be at the top of the list of requirements for a nice, considerate and professional editor is that it must retain the contents when the page is navigated away from and then back. In other words, if I accidentally click a link right now while editing, then instantaneously realize I made a big mistake, ten click the back button or whatever, then all my time eidting has been wasted. My work gets eaten and is gone forever. Many editors (edit software) has this problem but many have solved the problem. A good editor will have that problem solved.

An excellent editor will even keep a backup of the contents being edited. I suggested that years ago; I think for at least the MSDN forums and perhaps the CodeGuru forums before that. I got no respect for that idea but I think that the stackoverflow.com forum software has that feature now.

So I will post this much now so people can vote on it.

Good feedback guys! We have Obout's attention now so let the issues (RELATED TO EDITOR ONLY) keep coming and see if we can get the fixed.

All non-editor issues must be posted separately. We have a different thread for that :)

Thanks Victor. Good feedback.

Is it possible for you to provide us the Editor you are using on your website? You can bundeled it as a Obout Editor Pro with those additional features?

Best,
Mahesh

Victor, you seem to be trying to say that it is not the fault of the obout editor. Perhaps this discussion is getting off-topic for this thread and if so then we need to create a new thread for the obout editor. Wherever the problem is, it needs to be fixed. I am assuming that the problem is that the developers for this web site are having problems fixing it, but in my opinion it should be easy to fix and since it is not easy it is the editor software that is the problem. If you are not in a position to fix either the vendor's software or the way it is used for this web sitge, then it is not productive to continue here. If you are in a position to fix the obout software, then it needs to be fixed. It will make a bad impression on anyone that uses the software with IE if it has this problem.

yes Mahesh, this is better than current one.

http://www.obout.com/Obout.Ajax.UI/HTMLEditor/examples/Customize_OboutForum.aspx

The obout Inc. uses its new editor (AJAX Editor for ASP.NET 3.5) on its own forum.
The live example is present on their site, it has custom buttons to work with code highlighting.
Also the version of Editor used for this forum has limitations on some browsers use.
The new Editor has no such limitations (works fine with Google Chrome, Safari and Opera).

Maybe to use it?

Please note following:

(i) Using Google Chrome when i try to upload image, upload dialog box appears very bottom. (sometimes it works good, strange) Look at image.



(ii) i think no use of div, maybe you guys uses

(iii) tag or Syntax Highlighter must require (we are coders not we are writing history or civics here and we always love to look code something different like real)

(iv) quoting the thread reply is also important for us (normally we uses, even me @name-of-guy: comment), i think this is not good practice. this is not mandatory even like my (iii) point.

(v) Spell checker is good, but i can't see the pop-up like ms word when we right click using mouse. i think that's very quick way to correct the word. (i'm using g chrome)

(vi) When I try to cut/copy/paste some text from this editor here, shows dialog on top and i can't copy or cut text from editor here. try yourself using chrome. look at image.



One more thing guys, we should have multiple 'Mark As Answer' feature, maybe this is outside editor issue. Sometimes even i ask question then many of guys replies correct answer but problem 'how i mark all of them?' We can't ignore them.

I'll be using Google Chrome and we should not ignore this browser too.

Reply some quote for me here....most welcome.

Cheers!!
Have a Happy Coding Guys.