Issues with jQuery and TinyMCE rich text editor?

Question

I'm experimenting with the Tiny MCE editor. We also use jQuery, and I noticed that the standard Tiny MCE install includes a file called tiny_mce_jquery.js. Can anyone enlighten me as to what that's for? Oddly, I can't find anything about it online. Should I reference it in addition to the standard Tiny MCE script, or instead of? Does it provide anything additional or just avoid incompatibilities?

Answer 1

I believe it is the tiny mce script to be used if you already have jquery loaded to replace the standard mce script. You do not need both.

I found this comment in their developer forums here

We have added some adapters to the API so TinyMCE can use the jQuery API to reduce it's size but this is currently experimental and I haven't had the time to play with it since we are now focusing on stability for the core API. TinyMCE will remain library independent but that doesn't mean that we can't still use other libraries as an optional runtime for the core.

Answer 2

Looking at the changelog I see this:

Version 3.0a3 (2007-11-13)
Added new experimental jQuery and Prototype framework adapters to the 
development package.

My guess its so you can use jquery inside of tinymce framework. Some talk has been going on to converting TinyMCE to use jquery but I believe nothing has been done in that space. Instead, people have focused on creating their own solutions that certainly do not match the power of TinyMCE

To answer your question, you do not need to reference it with the standard install unless you want to write a TinyMCE plugin using some jquery functions.