I can (almost) appreciate the recent impositions of Redactor 2, but when it comes to handing off the site to a client, Redactor 2 is virtually unusable for anything more than paragraph text.
Are there any other rich text editors being considered as core replacements in the future? If so, +1 for an implementation of Froala into Craft. I see there is already a Yii2 implementation available.
Eventually, if a Craft CKEditor plugin doesn't come to life, then we might consider developing a 1st party (Pixel & Tonic) CKEditor plugin, although it would likely not replace the native Redactor Rich Tech Field implementation.
And of course, 3rd party plugins can implement whatever WYSIWYG they want to use.
<span> tags were now getting removed, and pasted content was stripped down much more than before. Again, it's a "fine" editor, it just feels like development is moving away from what people truly want.
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Jul 11, 2016 at 18:44
<span> tags are back.
Asking us to predict the future is hard (and probably a little off-topic). But I'll go ahead and contribute what little knowledge I have...
Per conversations in Craft Slack, a few reputable plugin developers have casually mentioned that they may or may not be working on plugins for the following WYSIWYG editors...
Because Slack conversations are so ephemeral, it's hard to say how much weight these comments truly carry. Multiple people mentioned working on a CKeditor, though it's possible they all stopped because "someone else is working on it". Froala was mentioned, although the cost was certainly an issue. And Tiny MCE was mentioned, although possibly as a joke.
I'd recommend tuning into Craft Slack, where you may be able to get a more up-to-date answer to this question.
(Personally, I'd love to see a P&T version of the CKeditor. But that's like, my opinion.)
