I was about to test the HtmlEditor as a way to get similar basic rich text editing and reduce the size of my application (integrating pure Ext components is almost always a win), but according to the documentation many of the formatting functions do not work on Safari.

Is there a roadmap for making this component more cross-browser and adding some or all of your work. Your additions look great!

Consider an example from Facebook: when you are typing a person’s name to send them a message, once the field knows the profile of the recipient, the text you entered for their name becomes a block of uneditable text. It’s a div or maybe some kind of inline element, and you can only delete it, but not edit it.

The configurable properties of such a plugin would be a template to determine how to generate the inline replacement element, and another template that generates the actual markup that is stored in the field’s value and sent to the server.

Where I imagine this gets tricky is detecting when the user intends to delete the field and then doing The Right Thing.

There’s a .css file in the repo at code.google.com that references images that aren’t part of the repo. It would be nice if they were available somehow.

The .css isn’t mentioned in your blog post or on code.google.com. Like in the example usage part.

But awesome work, and your blog is a joy to read.

Though I’m a bit stuck. I’d like the new buttons I create with this plugin to be in a new menubar, as the current one is stuffed already. Is this possible? I’m having troubles finding enough information on ExtJs to figure things like this out (in general sadly, not just now).

Thanks!

I created a formatblock plugin for the htmleditor. If you would like to include this in your selection I’d be honored. Little caveat: the code is licensed under the LGPL since I took some ideas and code lines from tinymce.

You can find the code here: http://blog.minimeta.de/2009/08/another-plugin-for-the-extjs-htmleditor/