I've used TinyMCE a few times, and dislike it due to the fact it needs to load sooo many files each and every single time you see it.

In my own work now, i use wysiwyg pro, but that is shareware and comes at a price, so you could not really add this to b2evo for public use.

TinyFck i haven't looked at, but i here it is quite good. I would imagine a plugin with some minor hacks could implement it.

It doesn't affect me, so i don't see myself spending anytime making the plugin/hack come to life. Which is how most developers think when they are short on time.

There's a plugin already:
http://manual.b2evolution.net/Plugins/tinymce_plugin

Created by a dev short on time.. ;p

Also, I don't think loading of files is an issue, because a) they get normally cached and b) there's a php wrapper that speeds it up (though I'm not sure if this was with tinymce or fckeditor) - I'm not using the plugin myself.

Edit: It can be installed in the "v-1-9" variant at http://demo.b2evolution.net/ btw for testing.

I thought it just died as an idea.

Edit: Just gave the demo site a look, the normal formatting bar apears to break it, so shouldn't there be a way to remove that bar, or maybe that bar could be turned into a plugin as well, in which the tinymce plugin can disable or whatever.

Offtopic;
Also noticed that the plugin grouping is in there, i can take a look into applying it for the installed plugins table in december. If so, pm/email me or something about it.

I thought I would explain the my motivation behind searching for a TinyMCE plugin. We have chosen b2evolution as the blog software for the library here at UC Berkeley. Anyone who works for the library can start a blog. Since we have the campus infrastructure, bandwidth is not a problem for us, and we have a large population of literate, verbal, educated people who are not necessarily competent in HTML. So a WYSIWYG editor makes perfect sense for us.
I'd like to help with the plugin.

Well as blueyed said, you can already get it.

You can get the v-1-9 build of b2evo via the instructions here
http://manual.b2evolution.net/CVS_version

And then get the TinyMCE plugin via the instructions here;
http://manual.b2evolution.net/Plugins/tinymce_plugin

The plugin will work well enough in 1.8.x probably.. no need to get b2evo from CVS.

garey, if you want to improve the plugin, patches are very welcome. I think there would be some decent (default) toolbar set(up) needed.

Update: it's also available in the v-1-8 variant on the demo site now.

:) Could a it be posted in the plugins forum, as it is commonly asked about. I think last week some people asked about it as well, and got no reply.

Edit: good stuff.

It's released. See http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?p=46909