Good point, IE 7 comes out this summer and Firefox releases a new version every week lately with all their security problems.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Woodward Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WYSIWYG HTML Editors I checked out htmlarea and have used it in the past, but I'm concerned since it's been abandoned that it won't keep up with future versions of browsers, etc. I've used it in the past and it's nice. Matt On 5/11/05, andreux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you looked at: > > http://www.htmlarea.com/ > > It has a nice comprehensive listing of all the different WYSIWYG > editors currently out there that have been registered with that site. > I've been using Kevin Roth's X-browser RTE > (http://www.kevinroth.com/rte) with variating degrees of success, as > well as others. > > I've found that while overriding certain functionality is relatively > easy if you're familiar with DOM, some of the behaviors seem very > embedded within somewhere that's not easily accessible within the code > of the editor. > > For example, changing the font for a selection... In Kevin Roth's RTE, > a call is made to document.execCommand(). I'm not quite sure *why* > this will format the selection as [font face="whatever" > size="some_number"]selected text[/font]. Is there somewhere out there > that defines execCommand a little better so we can understand what's > going on? > > Like you, I've been having to write "cleaner components" that will > "scrub" the resulting HTML back into a style that I like. > > Best of luck in your search. > > --- Matt Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, next question. I'm using FCKeditor in Firefox but I can't seem > > to copy from another application (e.g. MS Word, which is what my > > users will be doing most often) and paste into FCKeditor. > > The paste buttons > > are grayed out even though there's stuff in my clipboard. Have you > > seen that problem before? It seems to work fine in IE, which most > > of my users will be using anyway, but I wasn't sure what the problem > > was with Firefox or if you had seen it. > > > > One VERY cool thing is that when you use the "paste from Word" > > button it actually seems to handle all the annoying special Word > > characters that will make the database blow up. Beats the heck out > > of cleaning that stuff up manually with CF (even though I think > > there's a UDF available that does it). > > > > Matt > > > > On 5/11/05, Jake McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > I have to say, I'm REALLY happy with the new IE/FF > > compatible FCKeditor. > > > Really happy. It's free, and they just released > > v.2.0 yesterday. > > > > > > The toolbars are customizable, and it offers > > pretty much every feature > > > I've ever found need for. > > > > > > I haven't evaluated lately, but I looked ALL over > > and tested a TON of > > > stuff this past August when working on BlogFusion > > v.3.5. Nothing came > > > close to FCK > > > > > > Matt Woodward wrote: > > > > > > >OK, before I commit to one I'd like to get quick, > > real-world feedback > > > >on WYSIWYG HTML editors. I've used FCKeditor in > > the past with pretty > > > >good results but wondered if there were others > > out there that people > > > >have had good luck with. Needs to be free > > (ideally) and *must* work > > > >in both Firefox and IE. > > > > > > > >Thanks, > > > >Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: > > > > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > > > To subscribe: > > > > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Matt Woodward > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.mattwoodward.com > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > > To subscribe: > > > > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ > ---------------------------------------------------------- > To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm > To subscribe: > http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm > > -- Matt Woodward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mattwoodward.com ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
