Hi everyone,

I've been getting increasingly frustrated by the flexibility and output from
all of the WYSIWYG editors available for the web so I want to try and build
an editor experience for our 2nd generation of CMS that will achieve the
following:

  - Integrate in to our sites without requiring CSS tweaks to get it
  looking correct - this means no iframes.
  - Produce strict XHTML every time without fail.
  - Be simple to use.
  - Be quick to load and run.
  - Limit scope for the user to mess up their site design.

I want to try and use JQuery to achieve all of the above (and hopefully a
bit more). To see the foundation of my editor have a look at:

http://www.simpleweb-online.co.uk/stage/editor/test.htm

Ok, it's very simple indeed, and doesn't actually let you edit anything!!
However, the idea is that you can designate a div as the 'editor' and then
within this you can drop elements (I would imagine having a drop zone at the
bottom?) for example:

  - p tag
  - h1-h4 etc
  - ul
  - image
  - definition list
  - various other stuff (e.g. a google map)

Each of these elements would have an associated content editor for it. For
example an h1 would just have a 1 line text box, a p a text area, an image a
number of controls for src, alt, size etc.

It's my thought at the moment that I will use ajax to save back updates and
re-ordering so that there is essentially no 'save' process.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Perhaps I'm barking up totally the
wrong tree.

Tom
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