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Editors, Images and Pain Mitigation
With the advancement of content management systems like Joomla, Wordpress and even ActiveRain, the adding and maintenance of posts becomes a snap because the need for HTML skills are replaced with WYSIWYG editors.Some thoughts on this:  1.  No standards exist to make editors all behave the same way2.  Some editors don't work all that well3.  Manipulating images can make people crankyOn StandardsWhat I've found is that some believe their lack of computer/web experience is the root of their frustration, not realizing that even web savvy users, if forced to use the same tools, feel the same pain.   This is why many hard core web authors prefer to compose in text and insert their own HTML along the way.However, in the open source world, there are a few very popular editors such as TinyMCE, which is what ARuses here.   You can see that some aspects of the editor are identical to what's used in Joomla and Wordpress:
Because it's open source, developers can choose to add or remove certain features based on needs.  (Notice how in Joomla, there's an extra tab called Advanced which AR has removed)  On Editors that SuckIf you've spent anytime with the editor in version 2.3.x of Wordpress you ... more

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