Sayer - The Tiny But Fully Functional RTE for the Web

Currently very buggy, but only due to massive refactoring. And more refactoring is going to be needed. But soon. Ish. Hopefully by the middle of summer this will be ready in all of its glory.

And now for some quotes to distract you from the mess.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told: somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas: sometimes with chisel on stone; sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music; but clearest and most permanent, in words.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

(...) we will call here, the Knower, the Doer, and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why ?

Simply because there are no other really good, bare-bone text editors using contentEditable. Most browsers behave very differently in handling line breaks, new blocks, backspaces, deletes, formatting etc. So basically we have overriden all these actions with our own DOM manipulating actions. The only things we use native actions for is actual typing and text traversal (arrow buttons, page up, etc). Even the undo/redo has been completely replaced to allow us to modify the DOM howerver we like, but still be able to go back to previous changes. This might sound like a daunting task, but it turned out to be quite simple. And thus it is also very small, just look below.

Current functions are styling text with italic, bold or underline. Change between P, H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 and H6 blocks for text. Create ordered and unordered lists and undo/redo (in the seperate module snapback).

Sayer is Tiny

Though | Unminified | Minified | Compressed ----------|-------------|-----------|------------- jQuery | Doesn't count| Doesn't count | Sayer | 33.1kb | 19.5kb | Snapback | 6.69kb | 2.94kb | Selectron | 6.27kb | 3kb | Total: | 46.06kb | 35.44kb |

Comparison to Other RTE's

Compatability

CAUTION: This chart is not up to chart. Testing will not be done until refactoring is complete.

    | Quirky    | Full Without Undo | Full      |

--------|-----------|-------------------|-----------| Chrome | 9 | 16 | 18 | IE | N/A | 9 | N/A | Firefox | 1 | 3.6 | 14 | Safari | Unknown | Unknown | 6 | Opera | Unknown | Unknown | 15 |