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

[Ashish Aggarwal]

Hello James ,
I have a query . The idea page
<https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#write-activity-for-sugarizer>
refers
to having arrays in the text editor . Is the arrays here stand for arrays
in programming language or something else ?
I have attached screenshot with this mail .

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 10:01, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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
> > [16] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> > [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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