Considered Harmful

Still futzing around with WYSIWYG editors, only now I'm trying to figure out how to use an image browser that will integrate with Gallery. There's an editor plugin that appears to work with multiple editors, but it doesn't look like it's modularized for easy integration with Drupal.

My current focus on configuring the site lies in WYSIWYG editing. I may expand on this later, but I think I'm pretty set on using FCKeditor for the actual user interface, and the editor-specific FCKeditor module (documented in more detail here) for the interface to Drupal. My main annoyance with this configuration (which is something that the more generalized WYSIWYG module handles much better) is in linking editor mode to Drupal's built-in HTML filtering. However, I just found a Better Formats module that I may be able to configure to my satisfaction. If I can just tie both preferred input format and editor mode to user role, I think I can take full advantage of FCKeditor's flexibility without giving up control of HTML formatting to untrusted users. Hopefully, I'll find time to tinker with this combination tonight.

In other news, I have the Gallery script (as well as the Gallery module for integration with Drupal) installed, not that I've actually posted anything yet. It looks like the default configuration will be secure enough to keep the gallery from being taken over by comment spammers, at least until I find time to work with the setup in more detail.

Modules and features I'd like to add and configure (for my own use) before going too much further:

• WYSIWYG editor (currently considering YUI)
• Gallery integration, or some other image gallery management solution
• The Advanced Blog module, for some basic blog configuration

Just for the sake of having some persistent and meaningful (to me at least) content out here, I'm going to use the admin blog to document configuration changes, plan further updates, test features, and possibly do some brainstorming.

Any entry tagged 'test' is going to be a test of some feature or feature, and can be deleted once the testing is done. Should make cleanup a lot easier, as long as I don't use the tag for anything I want to keep.