Valhalla Island

I’m currently working on a project that requires a “What You See Is What You Get” editor. I just needed something very simple as it was only going to be used once and dosen’t require much editing power. I like the editor used in 2.0 and found out it came from tinyMCE.

I imagined it to be a single javascript file, a few images and a style sheet. I thought you’d just attach it to a textarea and it’d do all the work and the actual output to be sent to the database would be plain code. I thought all it would do is put a mask over the content in the text area. I haven’t throughly checked it out yet so that still might be what it does. But what amazed me is that the zipped package you download unzips to a massive 6.38MB.

6.38MB for a simple WYSIWYG editor. So much for tinyMCE, it should be called hugeMCE.