Ephox Meme: 5 Favorite Features

Adrian Sutton

The Ephox bloggers have been way too quiet lately (myself included) so I thought I’d start an Ephox meme. What’s your 5 favorite features of any of Ephox’s products?  They might be built in or plugins that we’ve developed, maybe even features of our internal systems that make your life easier, but preferably something that our clients could get hold of (teasing people just isn’t nice).

Here’s my list:

  1. Built-in Image Editor. Particularly being able to resize an image and add rounded corners and drop shadow.
  2. Pop out window mode. More editing space is always good.
  3. Automatically detecting URLs on the clipboard and using them as the default value in the hyperlink dialog.
  4. Styles menu. Not that I use it on this blog, but having access to classes in the site style sheet make it so easy  to apply some really nice formatting with just a couple of clicks.  The styles package prototype we use internally a lot is particularly useful for this.
  5. The extensible APIs. It’s so nice to be able to quickly add support for footnotes, a shiny button generator or whatever I happen to want this week. I wish more clients used this functionality to make life easier for their users – even if it was just by providing a handful of simple templates they could insert.

I tag Suneth, Damien and Brett…