Re: [cms-list] WYSIWYG Editor suggestions

[Bob Doyle]

Michael,

I agree the Microsoft Dynamic HTML Editing Component is cool. They have enormous market share in CMS space. Most of Ektron WYSIWYG widgets are based on it, and some 800 companies (from Vignette down) are using Ektron editing components.

But MS DEC is no longer the only game in town. And there are now several options for Mac and Linux folks to put a WYSIWYG tool on their user front end.

As others on the list mention, the RealObjects Java applet is in a lot of CMSs (despite $6000 license fee for unlimited users). http://www.realobjects.de

And Ektron's new Flash widget will work on all platforms (they initially priced it at $599, now it's only $99). http://www.ektron.com/news.cfm?doc_id=2434

But the least-cost option around is based on the Mozilla browser's XUL application tools.

We have put up an open-source WYSIWYG editor and it has no license fees whatever. Support is steep, but many shops will probably just learn to do it themselves.
http://wysiwyg.skybuilders.com
The site has demos of the MS DEC control (so people can see the problems you mention), and if you go to the site from a Mozilla 1.1+ browser, you can demo the new cross-platform WYWSIWYG editor. http://wysiwyg.skybuilders.com/demos/skywriter.html

In any case, downloads for both MSIE and Mozilla are on the site. http://wysiwyg.skybuilders.com/downloads.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "michael kimsal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Douglas Kerwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [cms-list] WYSIWYG Editor suggestions

I'm not a big MS fan, but they've certainly given people a nice tool with that built-in HTML editing component. Yes, the code it generates isn't very good, but *no one* seems to have come up with a better answer which *just works*. :( Sorry Mac people - (according to a recent Wired story, most of you hate MS with a passion anyway!) - you're stuck without a good embeddable HTML editing component.

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Bob Doyle
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