Every javascript WYSIWYG-plugin sucks, one way or another
- Not Microsoft Office-toolbar-ish (that is, not big, bloated and colorful)
- Only the basic stuff: Bold, italic, links, lists and image embedding
- When pasting rich text into the textarea (for instance from Microsoft Word), all formatting except the basic stuff should be filtered out (for instance, font size or paragraph confusion)
- When embedding images, the image should be wrapped in a styleable container (probably
<figure>) - Image embedding should support captions
- Image embed-buttons should be hidden on systems w/o user accessible file systems (iOS, I'm looking at you)
- Proper support for multiple textareas with different toolbars (you don't want image embedding everywhere)
- Carrierwave / paperclip support for upload
- Form helpers without inline script tags on each textarea
- Proper support for the Asset Pipeline
- The resulting markup should be markdown – so we can save light and clean markdown in the database. (might not be possible, but hey, this is a wishlist)
- A toggle to actually edit the markdown code
I would like to see more friendly customisation to insert custom styles. Not inline styles (I hate inline styles, they all do it!) but a selection of classes I can control in the drop down (and not all classes from my main stylesheet). So instead of the buttons adding inline styles, they add classes for pre-defined styles from a stylesheet. Other editors can do it, but it can be difficult to configure in the JS configs.