For anyone who works with WYSIWYG editors, you know that TinyMCE seems to be bundled with just about everything. What I can’t figure out is why. I’ve tried this editor in standalone installations, “module” based installations such as you would use on Drupal and WordPress, and custom installations where I needed it to do some specialized things. Experience has shown me that it is very difficult to get it to behave, bugs are plentiful, and upgrading is a toss of the dice at best.
I’ve now started using FCKEditor as my WYSIWYG of choice, and so far it’s working great. It has a relatively smaller footprint, is easy to customize, integrates nicely with Drupal, and allows for seamless image and file uploading within content. Most importantly – what I type is actually what I get and not the control’s best guess. It doesn’t insert a ton of superfluous code that I have to dig out each time either.
I might be missing what’s so great about TinyMCE, and if someone can show me the way then I’ll gladly listen. But for now I’m sticking with FCKEditor as it gives me far less headaches and is working like a charm.
