Why not just use Microsoft Word as your WYSIWYG editor? Metaverse offers a Web Service to convert a Word document to XML format, then gives an XML Stylehsheet (XSL) to transform the XML into HTML.
The web service is at; http://xform.metaverse.cc/xformservice.asmx www.metaverse.cc for more information. Regards, Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Tapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:02 PM Subject: [cms-list] WYSIWYG Editor suggestions > Hello all, > > My first post to the list, though I have been reading with interest now for > a couple of months. > > I wonder if anyone can help me - I'm looking for suggestions of a WYSIWYG > editor to add into our CMS. > > My company has developed an in house CMS on which we operate for various > specialist niche community/magazine sites. (links below so you can see the > sort of things it does and the types of articles our editors are writing on > the system - different sites use different and varied article templates). > It's all built in ASP and the "Add article" page is simply a web form into > which editors type raw HTML for the article body text. We need to keep the > overall system as it has real strengths in other areas but the lack of a > nice clean edit function for non-techy editors is the next thing we would > like to sort and turn to a WYSIWIG system. We don't want to re-invent the > wheel, so what we are looking for is a simple plug in module that can take > the place of the one form field on the page (there's lots of other stuff in > the page it needs to fit into) where they type the body text. > > Specification thoughts: > (1) They need to be able to do a range of simple mark up (Bold, Hyperlink, > Italics, Paragraphs etc) without worrying about HTML > (2) Some more advanced functions would be nice (Certainly adding in images > and captions aligned right, left or centre) > (3) The ability to toggle between WYSIWYG the raw HTML view (many of our > editors are tech savvy and will handcode special bits) > (4) Wait for it... It needs to work on Mac and PC clients! (This has been > our biggest problem with the few we've found to date and it's a problem we > need to solve) We've thought about doing a browser sense then serving up > one of two optimised solutions depending on the editors' platform as a work > around. Thoughts on this approach? > (5) Needs to be online only - ie all the functionality in the page - and > preferably not too heavy. > > Budget is near non-existent (obviously :-) as we cover our costs with > internet advertising. Think less than �400 absolute tops for a patch in bit > of code to work in all our sites (a couple of which we license to clients) - > and ideally it would be near free. > > My questions: > (A) Does anyone have or recommend any plug-in type modules that might suit > our needs? > (B) Am I barking up the wrong tree or is this the right way to look at > solving the problem? > (C) Would you say I'm missing anything in my spec? > > I'm going to put the shortlist through a selection process with our editors > and I'll post our findings back to this list if there is interest. > > Our sites (for example articles - pick a sport you like!): > http://www.bikemagic.com > http://www.fishingmagic.com > http://www.outdoorsmagic.com > http://www.golfmagic.com > > The ones we run for clients: > http://www.runnersworld.co.uk > http://www.digitalcameramagazine.co.uk > > Many thanks indeed for any help or thoughts you can give me, > > Jeremy > 0207 861 9866 > > > -- > http://cms-list.org/ > trim your replies for good karma. > -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
