Last week, I discussed a new change in 5.4 where we have backported the RibbonBar from DotNetNuke Professional to the Community Edition.  Well that is not the only big change that is occurring with this release.  We are also backporting the Telerik Editor Provider!  This is another huge win for the community.

Over the course of the last 7 years we have primarily had 2 different HTML editors that we have shipped with DotNetNuke.  The first text editor we used was FreeTextBox.  It is a great little editor that served us well for the first couple of years of the project.  Unfortunately, FTB changed their license which caused us to re-evaluate the editor we should be using.

About 3 years ago we adopted FCKEditor as the default editor for DotNetNuke and it provided a lot of features that were not available in FreeTextBox.  The FCKEditor Provider has been developed and maintained by Mauricio Márquez and really made a lot of advances over the provider that was used with FreeTextBox.  Mauricio has done a great job on the FCKEditor Provider and has always been very responsive whenever we have had issues that needed to be addressed.  My only regret is that our internal release process was more difficult than it should have been which made Mauricio’s job more difficult.