On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 09:32 AM, Taco Fleur wrote:
What Web Editor out there produces the cleanest and most valid code?
- Editor that is embedded in IE (seen it, produces really nasty markup) - Editor that is embedded in Netscape (no exprience) - Ektron (used it many years ago, was pretty happy with it) - ..... - Etc.
And which one works in most of the browsers?
I've given up on these WYSIWYG editors -- the lack of support on Mac platforms (in which I spend 99% of my time), and the lack of standards support is really frustrating.
What I've settled upon (for now at least) is some complex parsing of plain text, much in the same way that Textile <http://textism.com/tools/textile/> does, but with a lot less features.
For the average content contributor, they can just type regular plain text, with line breaks, paragraphs, lists, headings, etc with ZERO skills. From there, simple styling can be achieved with common plain text equivalents like *strong*, _emphasis_ /italics/, etc.
From there, links and images are only a little more complex.
All the parsing is done server-side, so I get complete control over how standards-compliant the outputted HTML is.
If a client wants a new feature, I just bolt it in. If I want to limit the formatting, I just remove features. Easy.
FWIW, I think Textile Beta 2 is a free download too.
Justin French
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