What do you think about Froala Editor?

I'm one of the main developers of the Froala Editor and I would love to hear any feedback you might have about it. Are you using another editor? What would you like to see implemented in Froala?

Stefan Neculai we use Froala Editor at 2U and it's been great. I'm unclear based on your answer below - do you support markdown and/or have a plugin?

A very nice and complete editor with an incredible UI. The only thing that is missing are image captions.

Hi Stefan, overall we love Froala.

However Froala lacks one serious basic feature - Inline Image Caption. This function is a must-have for any serious Rich Text (WYSIWYG) Editor in today's content creation, rich market.

Froala's rivals TinyMCE and CKEditor both have this feature.

You can test and use the Inline Image Caption function now on the CKEditor home page. Their implementation is brilliant.

We need Inline Image Caption for our users - urgently please. You and I have corresponded on this with a promise of 'soon', months ago, but so far no advance on what 'soon' means or when 'soon' is.

We are launching our beta product in a few weeks. We can't launch a serious product without Inline Image Caption. We anticipate frustrations from our users without this basic function. Unfortunately, we will need to switch to either TinyMCE or CKEditor, on this issue alone, as much as we love Froala.

This is the only flaw we find with Froala. So, if this feature is added, Frola is P-E-R-F-E-C-T!!! 😃 (Yay!)

If we could get a promise and a date for Inline Image Caption we will happily continue to support Froala.

Best regards from Australia.

Thanks for the input @Paul. I will keep you posted about the image caption feature.

Froala is magnificent. My startup Bybrand.io is totally based on it. Very easy to extend, and create your own plugins.

Some suggestions are: option to run with Jquery Slim (Ajax file upload can be compromised)

Right, @Bernardo. We're actually getting rid of jQuery all together. Just need few more time.

My main reason to want to ditch froala is the weight of the js and css. What is the minimum Kb weight of the editor once minified/gzipped ? Positive feedback : image uploading out of the box is just an amazing feature.

Thanks for the feedback, Renan. The core has 188Kb minified and 52Kb gzipped. The size is mainly growing because of the way contenteditable works in browsers. We're mainly using it just as a way to input data from the user and all editing operations are being handled internally so that the output is always the same in all browser.

Indeed, it could go much smaller if we'd move the UX out of it. I totally agree with that and we actually discussed this couple of weeks ago.

My app is only supposed to work in chrome & firefox latest version, so i don't see much value in broad retro-compatibility. But I guess making a "lite/recent browsers only" version would be like coding the editor all over again, and I understand most people prefer backward compatibility to light bundle size.

I totally understand your point Renan and I agree with you. It would be great if everyone would start using the latest browsers so we could focus more on bringing new great features rather that waisting time with backward compatibility.

However, you'll be surprised how many differences are there between modern browsers for a simple enter and how much the output differs. Not to mention advaced features such as pasting or applying a simple bold or link around text. Keeping it small is something we're looking for and when it's possible we ditch parts of the code which are no longer necessary because browsers are getting better and better.

Looks wonderful. I was specifically looking for markdown support which isn't present ATM.

The documentation looks well written and has support of numerous frameworks which is very good sign.

Oh damn, just checked the plugins section. It definitely looks promising. Will be trying it out soon.

Stefan That's so good to hear. This may become the last editor you will ever need. Excellent work, so far! 🍻

Thanks! More negative feedback please. 😃

@Syed one quick question. Are you looking just for markdown output or for something more like the Github editor for writing a comment?

We recently implemented it where I work. Our userbase has been happy with it so far. The developer who implemented it said you guys are proactive about getting feedback and have already spoken to him.

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