When I started using joomla, I thought what is the need for any other editor when there is one already provided by Joomla. That's because I always prefer to use default components rather than using 3rd party ones..



But there is one problem with the default editor..

It wants your HTML cade to start with either or no other tag seems to work (not even )! And that was really giving me headaches. because at most occasions there would be too much blank space above your content to your linking.



I then tried to find out the best Joomla editor and everyone recommended JCE so I gave it a go.



And it worked straight out of the box. There were no more or tags. The code remained what you intend it to be. Add to that a smarter interface and you get a very comprehensive editor in JCE..!!!



Good work guys..!!! And a BIG HUG for keeping it Open-Source.!!!

As they say.."Best Things in Life are FREE..!!!"

I used this editor and then tried to go back to the original Joomla! editor and ... no way ... The interface is so much easier to use.



T.Pursell

While I love the functionality of this component I've noticed that it considerably slows down load times on the entire joomla installation.



At 1st I was ok waiting 10-15 seconds for the editor to load in the back end, I figured it just takes a bit for all the rich functions to load. I was using this editor for about 3 weeks and I started noticing that page loading on the front end is considerably slowed down as well.



I made a template for a customer, uploaded no problems and I figured instead of editing each article in dreamweaver or typing out all the code I can shave off some time by using all the functions JCE provides. Load times trippled, and sometimes pages would just load forever. Since there was no other components installed by process of elimination JCE was responsible. I uninstalled it and load times are now near instantaneous, as they should be for a simple article layout.



I went back and removed the component from other web sites I've used it and all sites showed a considerable improvement on loading times.



Quite unfortunate since this offers a lot of flexibility while working with joomla. They structure and layout of the editor is brilliant but I can't afford to sacrifice such long loading times on the front end.

Excellent extension... This is the first thing i install anytime i develop a site with Joomla! Absolutely essential!!!

It just works, perfect integration and easy installation. If just all extension could be as smooth... A+

Great extension! Does just I wanted from it.

For me still the best and most powerfull Joomla WYSIWYG-Editor. Sometimes you might loose ther overview because of all the options, but once you get used to it´s logic and configuration you will love JCE. Flexible and powerfull!

16 years experience in the web development field.



Even if you disable the code rewriting it still edits your code. This even takes out HTML elements at times which it should never remove html tags.



JCE, it broke my site and this is not the first time.



The rating was actually raised on account that it is compatible with Zoo.

Make no mistake - this is a huge improvement on the standard TinyMCE editor and as others have said it should almost be supplied as part of a standard Joomla install. I say "almost" because it is let down by the documentation (or rather the lack of it) which means that an attempt to use the more sophisticated group features tends to end in failure.



The group configuration screen gives the impression that one can restrict editor facilities by group type, i.e. author, publisher, and if so desired restrict the group further by named users in the selected group type(s). The first part is true, but the second part does not work although it is possible to restrict access to specific users if no group type is selected. Whether or not this is the expected behaviour is a moot point given the lack of documentation, the absence of the flash movies referred to in the tutorials and the lack of user support when I tried to raise these problems on the support forum.



This is a great product though, and so long as you keep it simple in how you use it you won't go wrong.

Excellent - need I say more? Just get it!