There's been some topic drift from "Private Messages", which I'm going to continue, so I suggest this post is moved to Community Chat, but that's a decision for Wiz.
OneManLaptop's post at:
viewtopic.php?p=8254#p8254 and turboblack's response at
viewtopic.php?p=8255#p8255 both suggest alternatives to Summernote.
I've been wondering what the inclusion of a WYSIWYG editor says about about the expected or intended user of WonderCMS.
I first used WonderCMS when I needed to pass on maintenance of a web site I maintained for my wife's professional association when she was about to retire. The site had a handful of pages that were largely static and would not change, except for notifications about vacancies or (at the time) the effect of changing COVID regulations.
There were two things of concern to me. The guy taking over was a complete newbie to HTML. He would need to change links to member profile pages on a page with a long list of post codes and he would need to create new member profile pages, that would include a head and shoulders photo but would largely be a copy and paste job followed by editing the content.
Initially, I expected to have him use Summernote, but on testing, quickly realised that something as simple as hitting a backspace key one too many times in the middle of the list of post codes could corrupt the whole thing and he wouldn't have the capacity to recover the situation. (More recently, I've realised that this isn't a Summernote issue but is caused by the default editor's auto-correction feature.)
The result was that I ended up acquainting him the handful of HTML tags used on the various pages of the site and showed him how to use the default editor. He's been running the site entirely by himself for the last two years without further support from me.
The point of the tale is to say that I believe we should only encourage or suggest the use of a WYSIWYG editor if the planned site is to have no more than a handful of pages. That's because all the plug-in WYSIWYG editors I know insert in-line styling code which makes the work put into designing a theme largely redundant.
So rather than spend time working on improving WYSIWYG editing, WonderCMS should be promoted as a vehicle for building somewhat larger sites as there's precious little point in developing a theme if users are encouraged to use an editor that will ignore it.
In short, I believe it is far better to acquaint HTML newbies with a few common tags and and provide them with an editor that makes it easy for them to add correctly formatted tags. I'm working on this on my at at:
https://gregchapman.uk/wondercms
where I discuss the variable editors available and a possible alternate for Windows users. My plan is to add further recommendations for other platforms. I'd love feedback on my critiques of Summernote and Monaco.
I have found an editor that runs well under Android and ChromeOS
(search for "Pocket Editor" in Google Play) and works in a similar way to Monaco, but I would prefer to recommend an editor that makes it easy to insert predefined snippets rather than operates with auto-complete. While that feature helps experienced coders it is not as helpful for those taking their first steps with HTML which is the user I have in mind to try to support.