Support the WA Fronted editor plugin

[r-a-y]

When we started developing Social Paper, only FEE was a viable option for a frontend editor.

WA-Fronted is another frontend editor plugin that has more momentum behind it, appears to be less buggy and is in active development:
https://github.com/jesperbjerke/wa-fronted

It has revision history support, which is on our roadmap and will probably fix many issues that we have with FEE including #10 and #30.

Some of our JS will need to be modified to support WA Fronted. Most notably, the sidebar settings toggle and comment auto-positioning code (see commit 39a83fc).

Marking this as a future release, perhaps as a v2.0.

Notes:

• WA Fronted does not have a toggle for enabling editing. When you land on your paper page, you can edit immediately.
• Unlike FEE, saving a post in WA will reload the entire page. As of WA v1.3.0, this is no longer the case.

Todo:

• Support our custom sidebar from FEE.
• "New Paper" page needs to be adjusted to work with WA Fronted.
• Will probably need to add a "Show Comments" toggle since WA doesn't have an 'Enable Editing' button.
• Stripping the data-incom attribute by Inline Comments will need some work since WA doesn't have a before-save JS hook. (doing this at the server level for now - see commit 9b66cb5)

[boonebgorges]

This looks really promising - thanks, @r-a-y!

One lame side note is that the plugin requires PHP 5.4.3, a requirement
we don't meet on the Commons production server. We (desparately) need to
upgrade anyway, so maybe it's no big deal, but it's one more thing to do.

On 10/25/15 15:05, r-a-y wrote:

When we started developing Social Paper, only FEE was a viable option.

WA-Fronted is another frontend editor plugin that has more momentum
behind it, appears to be less buggy and is in active development:
https://github.com/jesperbjerke/wa-fronted

It has revision history support, which is on our roadmap and will
probably fix many issues that we have with FEE including #30
#30.

Some of our JS will need to be modified to support WA Fronted. Most
notably, the sidebar settings toggle and comment auto-positioning code.

Marking this as a future release, perhaps as a v2.0 or v1.1.

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