Users have been creating their articles in MS Word and have been expecting that they can simply copy and paste them in the web. Only developers know how hard this can be. But don’t worry, RadEditor is here to save the day

Q1 2013 brings an entirely refactored export functionality in RadEditor – you can now plug external libraries to do the HTML to other format conversion. Read on for an example and stay tuned for more samples that will come in the next posts in the series.

As a member of the Sitefinity team, Rich Text (WYSIWYG) web editors are literally the core of my world. These tools are the pipe through which most web content flows. They allow people—who know nothing about the HTML—to create HTML. However, the sad truth is that most WYSIWYG editors are worse than awful. In fact, I heard one CMS analyst refer to them as the “Achilles’ heel of CMS.” Frequently buggy, they’re renowned for allowing atrocious HTML to spill into the website.

It is not a secret that Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX Editor is one of the most loved, top performing and frequently used Telerik controls. That is why one of our main goals is to continuously improve it and satisfy our clients’ requests for new and useful features. We keep that tradition with Q3 2012, by introducing two very powerful features:

Format Painter much like the one you've seen in MS Word®

The end user can utilize the FormatPainter tool to copy formatting from a piece of text and apply it to others in the content area of RadEditor. The tool is very similar to...

Microsoft is going to end the mainstream support for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) on October 9th, 2012 (see on the official support lifecycle page), we also stopped the development of RadEditor for MOSS, just like we followed suit with the support for .NET 2.0.

The last official release of RadEditor for MOSS is version 5.8.16 (Q2 2012), which is based on Telerik's ASP.NET Editor (version 2012.2.607). The RadEditor for MOSS build is using a .NET 2.0 version of Telerik.Web.UI. Since we are no longer maintaining a .NET 2.0 build, we cannot have new versions of the MOSS editor.

Please keep in mind that support for integrating newer versions of...

One of the new features coming up in Q1 2012 for the RadEditor control is a new drop-down tool called "Format sets". We hope that this new editor command will make styling your content faster and easier. In its essence, the format sets drop-down combines the features of two existing editor tools - the paragraph styles and the apply CSS class and adds a new way to apply formatting to content.

 The new tool will help you immensely if your site has a lot of CSS styles and it takes a long time to find the right one each time. It...

Starting with the Q1 2012 release, the RadFileExplorer gets a new display mode - thumbnails. In this mode the grid with folder and file details is replaced with a listview, which shows the current folder in a display similar to the Windows File Explorer's medium icons view. The best scenario for this new display mode is when you want to display thumbnails of image files - these will be shown instead of the default image file icon we have in the control. Other supported files (e.g. office documents) will show up with normal icons.

 

The size of the thumbnail icons...

Starting from Q3 2011, the RadEditor for ASP.NET AJAX gets a new dialog - Insert External Video, which provides the ability to easily embed a YouTube or a Vimeo stream providing just the URL.

Steps to insert a video:

1. Open the  Insert External Video dialog and paste the copied video link into the Paste Youtube or Vimeo video URL textbox, e.g.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWv11JDPy24
   
   
2. To preview the video and enable the Embed video settings panel click outside of the textbox after you paste the URL.
   
   
3. It is possible to configure the video using the Aspect ratio, Width and Height customization options, as well as to choose whether the video will play...

One of the major goals for our AJAX RadEditor control is to provide an accessible content creation experience. For us, this task is divided into two major categories - having an accessible editor UI and helping the end user produce accessible content. With the Q3 2010 release, we made improvements to both and I want to share the results with you.

 The first major improvement is the new AccessibleRadEditor control. It is a stripped down version of the full featured RadEditor and has a simpler toolbar to allow easy navigation using only the keyboard. All tools have assigned shortcuts and even the...

In my last post I went over how to create your own custom dictionary for RadSpell and since this control is fully integrated into our RadEditor control I wanted to discuss how to use your custom dictionary with the RadEditor, as well as how to localize the RadEditor itself.

To start off we want to make sure that we can take use of our custom dictionary in the RadEditor. To do this we need to make sure that the “RadSpell” folder is located in the “App_Data” folder of our project. In the RadSpell folder we have to add all of our custom...