[Sugar-devel] Enquiry Regarding Contribution To Write Activity Project

[James Cameron]

Thanks Ashish.

A next step is for coding mentors Michaël Ohayon and Lionel Laské to
review and comment.

You can also work on your proposal.

https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Template.md

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 02:10:34PM +0530, Ashish Aggarwal wrote:
> Hello James,
> I went through the mentioned text editors Quill, TinyMCE, CKEditor, webODF as
> well as SunEditor and Froala.
> Here is result of the search done by me :
> 
> Quill : Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web.
> It supports all major modern browsers . It has support on stack and github. The
> major issue I found in it was lack of support for tables.
> 
> TinyMCE : It is also open source Licensed under LGPL . It has all major
> features required for editing the content . It has great documentation and an
> active community. It is not completely free and is API key based.
> 
> CKEditor : It is also open source and an easy to use rich text editor . It also
> has large active community. It has some minor cross browser platform issues.
> 
> WebODF : It is also open source . It has a major drawback the community is not
> active anymore.
> 
> Reference - [1]here.
> 
> SunEditor : It is also an open source editor. It has all major features
> required for the project. The major issue is it has a very thin community.
> 
> I have also contributed to this Editor [2]here.
> 
> Froala : It is also an open source editor with active and large community . It
> also has all major features required for the project .It has good documentation
> and has a very good performance .It is available for all major frameworks.
> Although it is open source, but the professional support is paid.
> 
> Conclusion  : I feel the best way moving forward is to create our own purely
> javascript based rich text editor without  pure reliability on any other text
> editor. Our editor would take inspiration from these editors in terms of
> frameworks used and coding style. The major advantage of doing it will be
> having a high scale of customisation as per the needs of the project. It would
> be easier to maintain and do changes to it as per our requirements.
> 
> I have tried to implement a basic rich text editor with some major features [3]
> here purely based on HTML/CSS and JS .
> 
> Ref - [4]https://stackoverflow.com/a/6008195
> 
> Export content to printable format : Most major rich text editors uses some API
> or js libraries to convert the data present in PDF format .
> 
> For example CKEditor and TinyMCE uses  [5]Api2Pdf REST API ( We can also use
> the same in our custom editor )
> 
> Also npm packages such as  [6]html-pdf can also solve the problem
> 
> There is one more way do implement it using [7]this
> 
> Export content to editable format : Majority of previously existing text
> editors supports only convert to html format . However we can have export to
> txt , Open XML word documents , HTML.
> 
> For txt and HTML : Best way to do this is through [8]FileSaver.js and [9]Blob
> 
> A more advanced way would be [10]StreamSaver.js in case of extremely large
> files ( greater than 2gb ) .
> 
> For doc : We can use jquery word export plugin [11]example .
> 
> Also we can use [12]MariGold.OpenXHTML
> 
> For RTF : We can use [13]this type of approach and Blob to get RTF files
> 
> Regards , 
> 
> [14]Ashish aggarwal
> 
> github - [15]ashish0910
> 
>  
> 
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 at 03:57, James Cameron <[16]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     Welcome.
> 
>     Third step was to make a study of existing web editors, identifying
>     features of each and ways to export content to editable or printable
>     format.  What were your results?
> 
>     On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 09:25:18PM +0530, Ashish Aggarwal wrote:
>     > Hello everyone ,
>     > I came across the project Write Activity for Sugarizer [1]here . I really
>     liked
>     > the project and would like to contribute to it for gsoc but as the
>     existing
>     > project is based on python and the proposed project is required to be
>     made on
>     > javascript, as mentioned in the ideas page, I was not sure regarding the
>     right
>     > way towards contributing to this project.
>     > I have already gone through the provided tutorials as well as the steps
>     > mentioned and have been contributing towards Sugar Labs for a while now.
>     > Please provide me the right approach going forward.
>     > Thanks & Regards
>     > [2]Ashish Aggarwal
>     > Github Link -  [3]ashish0910
>     >
>     > References:
>     >
>     > [1] [17]https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#
>     write-activity-for-sugarizer
>     > [2] [18]http://ashishaggarwal.tech/
>     > [3] [19]https://github.com/ashish0910
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> References:
> 
> [1] https://github.com/webodf/WebODF/issues/947
> [2] https://github.com/JiHong88/SunEditor/pull/84
> [3] https://ashish0910.github.io/Texteditor/index.html
> [4] https://stackoverflow.com/a/6008195
> [5] https://www.api2pdf.com/documentation
> [6] https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-pdf
> [7] https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
> [8] https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/
> [9] https://www.javascripture.com/Blob
> [10] https://github.com/jimmywarting/StreamSaver.js
> [11] https://codepen.io/airpwn/pen/LRZdJo
> [12] https://github.com/kannan-ar/MariGold.OpenXHTML
> [13] http://jsfiddle.net/JamesMGreene/2b6Lc/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=2b6Lc
> [14] http://ashishaggarwal.tech/
> [15] https://github.com/ashish0910
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> [17] https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#write-activity-for-sugarizer
> [18] http://ashishaggarwal.tech/
> [19] https://github.com/ashish0910
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