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Insert Flash Media Embed Code TinyMCE Plugin

03.22.2010 02:19PM by Evan Johnson

I’ve run into a problem providing my clients good, easy-to-use media embed functionality with the existing JavaScript WYSIWYG editors. The big players, CKEditor (formery FCKEditor) and TinyMCE both provide a "Flash" button which works okay with YouTube and other large video providers, but what about embedding a Picasa slideshow? None of the WYSIWYG editors come with plugin to just insert some HTML code....

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Unobtrusive jCarousel page/tab external controls with jQuery

01.14.2010 10:49AM by Evan Johnson

I am using the very slick and enjoyable jCarousel plugin for jQuery on a new project to display featured content on the front page. I wanted to use the external controls to allow users to easily jump between slides. However, all the examples I found required hard-coding the control links into the document HTML. This is not best practice because when JavaScript is disabled and the...

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Adding the "rel" and "title" attributes to image links in CKEditor 3

01.08.2010 12:37PM by Evan Johnson

CKEditor is the new and improved successor to the venerable FCKeditor JavaScript WYSIWYG editor. I've used TinyMCE and FCKeditor before, but this was my first time trying out the new CKEditor 3.1. I am using it on a new Drupal website via the Drupal CKEditor module. The problem I ran into, however, is using Lightbox2 on images inserted via CKEditor. CK does not provide a...

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