New content module designed around HTML5's contenteditable

[einkoro]

To support the fancy new WYSIWYG editors that are not just textarea replacements we will need to redesign the content module to work with one. This also allows us to add a lot of neat features like notes and snippets (predefined markup chunks that can be inserted on a page) plus a much better interface for history revisions.

http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/

The interface may be an issue if it clashes with any layout CSS.

The challenge I see is that this almost needs two content managers in a sense. One like the current one where the web developer would have complete control of the markup and could define what regions are editable and one where the users edit their content.

[einkoro]

CKEditor v4, currently in beta, might be a better option. Not as fancy as Mercury but it seems easier to work with and can do XHTML just fine. v3 had a CodeMirror plugin as well. Although we could just have sperate pages, or tabs within a page, one for editing the raw source/defining contentEditable areas and another for the regular fancy editor. This could be extended to show the revisions and other details as well.

http://nightly-v4.ckeditor.com/3692/samples/index.html