1) HTMLArea RC3 - pretty darned powerful. suspect support. It's been at RC3 since the stone ages and nothing much since then. I'm also not very sure about the validity of the output code since changing font families will churn out <font> tags by default (didn't try to explore changing this as I moved to FCKEditor by then). Not easy to set up either. 2) FCKEditor - my choice right now. Support is pretty much a single-handed effort by the author but it's one of the most active projects on sourceforge right now. Visually very rich and it's one of the easiest to set up so far. One thing I love is the provision of plug-ins to the variety of server-side technologies like ASP, ASP.net, PHP etc. 3) TinyMCE - a little light on features, good to use if you're just letting users access to the basic stuff. 4) XStandard - commercial-ware so I didn't really evaluate it much. But since it's supposed to be fully XHTML-compliant I guess there's something to be said for that. 5) http://www.intelimen.com.br/lib/editor/index.php - not evaluated yet 6) http://www.snippetmaster.com/index.php - not evaluated yet 7) http://kupu.oscom.org/ - not evaluated yet, from my first look it seemed really basic and slow. 8) http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwebeditor - not evaluated yet 9) http://walter.sourceforge.net/ - not evaluated yet One thing that you may want to watch out is whether they allow editing of individual table CELL attributes. No, not for more abuse of table-based layouts but it does have its uses sometimes. Wong
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 7:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [WSG] XHTML complient in-browser Rich Text Editor. Hi Everyone, I am looking for a lean browser based text editor which creates valid XHTML output. Basically I would use a normal text area, but the site I am developing requires the ability to add hyper links, paragraphs, and change the text style. I want something that will automatically run (i.e. I want to avoid having the user manually install something)... I have looked at xstandard (http://www.xstandard.com) and I'm pretty impressed, but I found it to be really slow to load as it might be a bit too rich on functionality for my needs... Just wondered if anyone has any other recommendations for a nice simple RTE??? Cheers, Matt ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
