Wow, they move fast! Go and grab Tiny MCE 2.0RC2 .

TinyMCE 2.0RC1 is out. Take it while it’s hot! I’ve upgraded my admin pages and it looks better than previous one (duh!).

Nevertheless I see annoying flickering in FireFox. But it flickers less now.

I decided to try how well Opera works with my site. It mostly works. You can go and see stuff but all Dojo-related code doesn’t work. Interesting that Google Maps works properly.

When I switched to admin mode to edit this article, it turned out that TinyMCE doesn’t work either.

But good news is Dojo and TinyMCE failed gracefully.

The best thing about Dojo 0.1: it’s quite easy to create portable widgets. Such widgets work similar to Microsoft IE’s behaviors but they are even more self-contained. Dojo widgets can work with fragments of HTML and CSS, which will be inserted during the object creation. The event system is very elaborate. Of course Dojo is more than a simple widget factory. For example I didn’t try the I/O facility yet.

New design is here. Well, some elements of it. I had bigger ideas, but CSS didn’t work reliably, and JavaScript option was in debugging mode. So I decided to update this site now and add other planned stuff later.

One reason I postponed JavaScript thingy is I want to try Dojo . It looks like a good foundation for widgets. I am going to create a couple of them at least. If it works okay, I’ll be using it in other projects as well. Stay tuned.

Update (3/13/2011): this article is obsolete now and preserved here mostly for its historic value. Nowadays I use Dojo’s dijit.Editor as a WYSIWYG HTML editor — it is more functional and much simpler to setup and extend. Read all gory details in Using Dojo Rich Editor with Django’s Admin .

I decided to add a WYSIWYG editor to my admin portion of the site. Apparently you can find some nice open source WYSIWYG editors nowadays. Probably FCKeditor, Xinha and TinyMCE are the most prominent ones. Some people already tried different editors with Django, e.g., Xinha — http://www.socialistsoftware.com/?p=10 , TinyMCE — http://www.socialistsoftware.com/?p=8 . Now it’s my turn.