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DCwebGuy
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February 28, 2012
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Why doesn't CF10 include the upgraded CKEditor 3.6x? Still using old FCK version?

  • February 28, 2012
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I confirmed with Charlie Arehart that both CF9 and  CF10 are using the same "old" version of FCKeditor, which runs the rich text option of cftextarea.  The CFIDE in both editions (such as C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\scripts\ajax\FCKeditor\fckeditor.js) reports this:

FCKeditor.prototype.Version            = '2.6.4.1' ;

FCKeditor.prototype.VersionBuild    = '23187' ;

This version of the editor is no longer supported by the company that build the plugin (scroll to bottom of this link): http://ckeditor.com/download

The latest version has more plugins and support that would be very useful, such as line numbers and syntax highlighting of the rich text source code.  Lots of Googling indicates there was, at some point, a plugin for the old FCKeditor that allowed syntax highlighting but those sources are no longer available (i.e., the web site has gone dark). 

Anyway, since jumping from CF9 to CF10 is a big deal, I'm just surprised Adobe did not include this upgrade as well.  Please correct me if I'm wrong, or else please consider this my request to include the upgraded editor in the production release.  Thank you.

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Correct answer hemant_k1

We were not able to upgrade FCKeditor in CF10 (though it was initially in the bucket of items to consider) because of other priority issues coming up.

We will try to work on this area post CF10.

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hemant_k1Correct answer
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February 29, 2012

We were not able to upgrade FCKeditor in CF10 (though it was initially in the bucket of items to consider) because of other priority issues coming up.

We will try to work on this area post CF10.

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DCwebGuyAuthor
Inspiring
January 20, 2016

Looks like it was not updated in CF11 either.  Maybe 12?  It really needs to be upgraded.  Of course, more and more of us are using off the shelf CMS systems and not home grown systems, so maybe editor is a moot point, but if you're still going to package it with CF then please integrate the latest CKeditor.  Also, Fckeditor is a major target of attacks.  I see malware bots and spiders looking for it all the time (in my logs).  I actually removed Fckeditor from my system hard drive altogether because of this.

WolfShade
WolfShade
Legend
January 21, 2016

Doesn't HTML5 pretty much make things like FCKeditor obsolete?

V/r,

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