MarkEdit in Django

Being primarily a Django developer, it was only a matter of time until MarkEdit came with Django integration.

I added to the GitHub repo today a simple app which provides a widget that renders MarkEdit through Django. It's probably a bit more difficult to use than the jQuery plugin because it makes some assumptions about your Django configuration and usage (as do many Django apps). In any case, an initiated Django developer should be able to figure it out just fine.

In addition to the source update, the wiki has also been updated with documentation for the Django integration.

An of course, here's a screenshot of MarkEdit in the admin (running under Grappelli):

MarkEdit Moved to GitHub

I have relocated the MarkEdit repository to GitHub to give it more community accessibility. The GitHub repo now also includes an improved wiki.

MarkEdit now has it's own project page, also hosted by GitHub: http://tstone.github.com/jquery-markedit/

The project page finally puts a working demo online (along with 4 other advanced demos, showing some of MarkEdit's flexibility).

MarkEdit Documentation

For those interested, I finished the preliminary documentation and sample code for MarkEdit. It can be viewed via the Bitbucket Wiki.

The documentation includes...

• Installation
• Sample code
• Complete API reference
• Complete configuration option reference

WMD Editor & jQuery

I've been using Dana Robinson's WMD Editor fork for a couple of months now. It was a great place to start. The problem is, it's becoming a real pain to customize. Small things were taking huge amounts of time to accomplish so I had a tough decision to make: Continue to use WMD Editor and have to spend hours for customization that should only take a minute or two -OR- re-write the UI myself on top of the existing Markdown rendering component?

Introducing: MarkEdit -- the Javascript MarkDown editor built on jQuery (to replace WMD Editor). It's currently being hosted on BitBucket.

• Built On jQuery/UI -- Lighter weight code and less cross-browser issues
• Themeroller Support -- Use existing or custom jQuery UI Themeroller themes
• International -- Supports the loading of an alternate language
• Sensible Defaults -- You should be able to get up and running with 1 line of javascript
• Configurable -- Almost all defaults can be overridden very easily upon initialization
• Public API -- Interact with whatever part you're interested in
• Documented

Since everybody loves screenshots, here's the editor running under a jQuery theme and using the Chinese language translation.





And again here's a translated popup asking for the URL to insert an image...




And here's preview mode using a different theme but still in Chinese...




So far I've invested about 15 hours into the project with it being probably around 95% complete for initial coding. There is still a TON of testing to be done. I haven't even tried to fire it up in any of the fussy browsers yet.

I actually wrote a whole lot about it so far -- it's all up on the Wiki. There is still lots more documentation to come.