<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello James ,<div>I have a query . The idea <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#write-activity-for-sugarizer">page</a> refers to having arrays in the text editor . Is the arrays here stand for arrays in programming language or something else ?</div><div>I have attached screenshot with this mail .</div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 10:01, James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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. <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Template.md" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Template.md</a> 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]<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/6008195" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/a/6008195</a> > > 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]<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>> 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]<a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#</a> > write-activity-for-sugarizer > > [2] [18]<a href="http://ashishaggarwal.tech/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ashishaggarwal.tech/</a> > > [3] [19]<a href="https://github.com/ashish0910" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ashish0910</a> > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > [20]<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > > [21]<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > -- > James Cameron > [22]<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [23]<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > [24]<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > References: > > [1] <a href="https://github.com/webodf/WebODF/issues/947" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/webodf/WebODF/issues/947</a> > [2] <a href="https://github.com/JiHong88/SunEditor/pull/84" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/JiHong88/SunEditor/pull/84</a> > [3] <a href="https://ashish0910.github.io/Texteditor/index.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ashish0910.github.io/Texteditor/index.html</a> > [4] <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/6008195" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://stackoverflow.com/a/6008195</a> > [5] <a href="https://www.api2pdf.com/documentation" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.api2pdf.com/documentation</a> > [6] <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-pdf</a> > [7] <a href="https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF</a> > [8] <a href="https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/</a> > [9] <a href="https://www.javascripture.com/Blob" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.javascripture.com/Blob</a> > [10] <a href="https://github.com/jimmywarting/StreamSaver.js" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/jimmywarting/StreamSaver.js</a> > [11] <a href="https://codepen.io/airpwn/pen/LRZdJo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://codepen.io/airpwn/pen/LRZdJo</a> > [12] <a href="https://github.com/kannan-ar/MariGold.OpenXHTML" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/kannan-ar/MariGold.OpenXHTML</a> > [13] <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/JamesMGreene/2b6Lc/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=2b6Lc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://jsfiddle.net/JamesMGreene/2b6Lc/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=2b6Lc</a> > [14] <a href="http://ashishaggarwal.tech/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ashishaggarwal.tech/</a> > [15] <a href="https://github.com/ashish0910" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ashish0910</a> > [16] mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a> > [17] <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#write-activity-for-sugarizer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#write-activity-for-sugarizer</a> > [18] <a href="http://ashishaggarwal.tech/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ashishaggarwal.tech/</a> > [19] <a href="https://github.com/ashish0910" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ashish0910</a> > [20] mailto:<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > [21] <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > [22] <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> > [23] mailto:<a 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