It depends on how much they need to do -- if it's just basic formatting of text, I'd say Textile[1] or Markdown[2] which are ASCI-to-XHTML converters with simple "shorthand" for links, bold, italics, etc.
Textile especially is quite in depth if needed (tables, styles, and all sorts of stuff) but it generally just gets out of the way and let's text be XHTML. Textile is available as part of Textpattern[3], a GPL'd CMS written in PHP so you should be able to use it in some way in your app, but I'd review the license for yourself. It's also been ported to Perl and even Python I think.
Markdown is written in Perl, but there are ports as well.
1. http://textism.com/tools/textile/ 2. http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ 3. http://textpattern.com/
All the in-browser WYSIWYG editors seem to be either cross-browser OR standards-compliant, but not both. Since I have users on all sorts of operating systems (a lot on Mac OS 9 with IE5Mac) they're just not an option at all.
Justin French
On 09/09/2004, at 7:35 AM, Joseph Lindsay wrote:
Does anybody have any experience with any content management tools that produce standards compliant code, and can be used by non-standards-savy authors?
Does macromedia contribute produce good code? Editize? any other tools out there?
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