jQuery Rich Text Editor

Question

I'm currently using TinyMCE 3 on a site, but have noticed it's pretty bloated (many files to download, etc.). I'm working on improving the site's download time, etc. One of the things I want to do is replace TinyMCE with a more lightweight solution.

My requirements are basic:

• Bold
• Italic
• Unordered list
• Ordered list
• Blockquote
• Outdent
• Indent
• Cut, Copy, Paste (can live without these)
• Undo & Redo (can live without these)

The editor is not used to create complex layouts or anything. It's just used in simple forms, like for emails and product/service descriptions. Just very basic formatting requirements.

Finally, something hosted on Google CDN would be a big plus.

Suggestions?

Answer 1

You can strip tinymce down massively.

Just show the icons you want and delete all the plugin folders that contain functionality for the icons you don't want.

Delete the themes/skins you don't want.

Delete all the pages relating to the image/file manager.

The core isn't that big.

Answer 2

Hallo is quite a simple rich text editor built as a jQuery UI widget. MIT license and should provide the features you're talking about.

Answer 3

I recommend http://ckeditor.com/. I like the easy file integration with http://ckfinder.com/ file manager. Last time I checked, TinyMCE charged for most file manager plugins, or you had to hack around to get something working.

Here is an article on some reasons to try it instead.