XStandard is very good - there is a freeware version. For my money the commercial version is worth it and not expensive compared to others commercial XHTML editors.
Very easy to add custom mark-up to support styles and drag/drop image/file upload is neat. Johan ---------------- www.assetnow.com > ------------Original Message------------ > From: "Wong Chin Shin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, Jan-8-2005 7:17 AM > Subject: RE: [WSG] XHTML complient in-browser Rich Text Editor. > > 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 > ****************************************************** > > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
