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15 August, 2012

Aloha – Drupal/Spark sprint report

We had already let you know that we would be using Aloha Editor as the WYSIWYG editor in Spark. In short: it has a very complete feature set, a proven plug-in system, solid cross-browser support, it can do “nested editables”, and so on; but most notably it’s the best WYSIWYG editor out there that can do “true WYSIWYG”.

Sprint

To accelerate the integration of Aloha Editor into Spark’s Edit module, we decided to do a code sprint with the Aloha Editor developers. Acquia flew out Théodore “nod_” Biadala and Wim Leers to Vienna (Daniel “sun” Kudwien unfortunately wasn’t able to make it), to hack three days (July 16–18) in a row to get us as far as possible. Three of the Aloha Editor developers were working full-time with us.
We’d like to thank Aloha Editor’s parent company, Gentics, for their generous contribution and amazing hospitality.

The most notable goals were:

10 July, 2012

Spark update: WYSIWYG choice

A few weeks ago, we showed the in-line editing prototype we had built for Spark, which has now blossomed into Edit module. Additionally, we also pointed out that we were in the process of selecting the WYSIWYG editor to use in Spark. This selection process was performed in the public Spark issue queue, in order to gather community feedback and to attempt to reach consensus. 73 people followed that issue, about two dozen of whom contributed to the discussion as well.

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