TinyMCE Tools

EDIT 2: The lesson notes are up! Thanks again, VictorKane.

EDIT: The screencast was again eaten by e-goblins, but we managed to save the audio. We're taking steps to make sure this never happens again.

Anyone who has been following the TinyMCE saga knows that the module has emerged from its dark days and is once again stable with all the 4.7 features included. The Moxicode 2.1 release solved several issues for Drupal users. Nedjo banged out some great patches to re-restore customizations to TinyMCE beyond what the GUI button picker allows, but it looks like the only way to get the form based customizations (vs. modifying the actual .js theme files) to work with modules that enable additional textareas like Nodeteaser is to use JQuery... which many developers prefer anyway.

We are currently working through new issues caused by the patches. I expect a new stable release in the next week or two. Rather than deal with deluge of support request or try to reproduce the documentation Moxiecode already has, I thought a Dojo lesson that covered how developers can take advantage of the new features might make sense.

I'd like to start the lesson with the basics. Since there are always issues in the queue from users with installation issues, I thought taking a few minutes to go through the install process step by step would benefit a large number of Drupal users who might learn better from watching someone actually do the install than reading step by step instructions.

After covering the basic installation process, I'd like to go over the changes in the new release and cover some of the more advanced TinyMCE configurations that I didn't even know were possible until I was forced to manually configure it during the early days of the Drupal 5 release.

The update is going to unlock (or re-unlock for some) additional TinyMCE features like...

* Create a more logical button layout
* Adding a spellcheck
* add YouTube button
* add PHP (beta) button
* add Unicode Keyboard
* add Codeprotect (allows developers to "lock" php in a post so other users can't remove it)

Thoughts?

~ As always, If you'd like to lead an upcoming lesson, even if you're not a master ninja, you should express your skills and desire to lead a class