Merged WYSIWYG editor for Kunena: How to allow HTML tags?

*** Topics merged (again) by moderator ***

This is, more or less, the same question you asked last time. The standard version of Kunena does not allow you to use the <SCRIPT> or the <IFRAME> HTML tags. There is no BBcode tag for these things, either. It's all explained in here (with explanations of why this cannot be done) if you read this topic from the beginning to the end.

Hey,

I have to make the decision if I will pay $249 for vBulletin, or put a little bit more hope (and money) into the developer that they see the importance of a WYSIWYG BBCode-Editor in the year 2012.

An editor is the heart of every user-frontend. Usability should be on the top of the agenda for every forum, and I’don’t realy understand why I’m waiting for so long now, and nothing happens.

User know mostly vBulletin and WBB-Boards - and they don’t accept BB-Code anymore today.
For a great community, I can’t use Kunena, and that’s really sad, because Kunena is great in so many ways.

The first step in solving every problem is to recognize there is one.
So, do the developers think the missing BBCode WYSIWYG-Editor is a problem? Or will I waste my time if I continue waiting for something happening?

G'day, Sheppard, and welcome to Kunena.

Your dilemma has been argued, debated and discussed many times in this topic into which I have merged your post. I am sure that you will find this topic very valuable background reading in arriving at your decision.

Hey,
thank you for your response.

The last concrete answer is 4 months old now. It says after the release of K2.0 it will take about 2 months to get a WYSIWYG Editor out, if the Kunena-Team decides to implement one.

So, if my calculator is right, a WYSIWYG-Editor will be released as paid-version in the next view days

Haha, ok, seriously. How high on the priority list is a WYSIWYG-Editor today. Are there any plans and is there a time frame, or will it be like waiting for “Duke Nukem Forever”

Your assumption is unfounded.

We wanted to improve the message editor. There were no funds available to achieve this target in the timeframe. I do not know when or if this objective will be met. The Kunena project is starved of funds to make this "ideal" objective a reality. Any "promises" made several months ago have been overtaken by other events. The Kunena project, starved of funds, can only attend to matters of bug-fixing and readying the component so that it's compatible with J! 3.0. While it would be lovely to enhance Kunena's functionality and feature set, this is not achievable within current budgetary constraints. I am sure that you understand that, given the open-source, community-driven nature of this project and the fact that we are not yet ready to deploy a "paid" version at this time - a version that will have additional functionality - this is the reality that we current face.

If people would like to help the project there are many ways to do this. Those who have PHP programming expertise can join the project on Github . Donations are always welcome. Financed requests for sponsored work can be fitted in, too. There is much work that needs to be done in the areas of documentation, assisting with attending to user's requests for help and general work around the forum, too.

Please remember that there is no company behind Kunena; everyone who contributes to Kunena is a hobbyist, enthusiast or professional web developer who gives their time freely to this project - volunteers every one of us. Our hope is to make Kunena the most reliable, scalable, durable and robust forum component for Joomla that we can make it and to give people the best solution to meeting their forum needs. The forum is a self-help community-driven resource for users to help one another. Our job, in moderating the forum, is not necessarily to answer every question but, rather, to point people in the right direction where they can find the answers.

Last of all, Kunena is free. Freely available and free of charges - the source code is all there and you can modify it to your heart's content. That's the way we want it to remain but there are limits to what can be achieved under these current arrangements.

WYSiWYG editing is not the highest priority: fixing current software errors is topmost and, given the pressures of the Joomla community with the availability of J! 3.0, people will have expectations for a K 3.0 (J! 3.0-compatible version) before anything else.

No offense intended.
I couldn’t point out enough the amazing work you do on kunena in your free time, and I am under no illusion that fixed promises can be hardly done.

Of coure I can’t estimate how much work it would be to include an existing editor or building up a new one.

On the other side when I read here ( www.kunena.org/forum/159-K-17-Common-Que...ysiwyg-editor#121315 ) that adding an editor is very easy, or here ( www.kunena.org/forum/77-General-Talk-abo...ags?start=110#125223 ) that the parser has no problems with HTML-content anymore, it looks for me that it wouldn’t be such a big deal.

It’s a topic since 3 years now, and after Joomla 3.0 is before Joomla 3.5, so I don’t see light at the end of the tunnel. That's not criticism, but it’s a shame for me, because the editor is the only weakness I can notice.
But for my community it’s a no-go, and so l have to find a solution – and changing the platform seems to be the only one in appropriate time. But I hope I will be able to change back some day