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Web Developer Extension - A web page dev toolbox
Authored by: seanasy on Oct 21, '04 03:46:44PM

Hmmm... this sounds very cool. Could this be extended to make the browser a WYSIWYG editor? Combine it with webdav, it might work better than some of the CMS editors out there. Or, am I just fantasizing/clueless?



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Web Developer Extension - A web page dev toolbox
Authored by: kumar303 on Oct 22, '04 03:01:41PM

there is a javascript-based WYSIWYG editor which supports Mozilla (in beta). It has been in beta for a long time though so it probably works pretty well.

HTML Area
http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/



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HTML area is nasty stuff
Authored by: alec kinnear on Oct 24, '04 12:56:30AM

I tested HTML area and two other freeware javascript editors RTE and tinyMCE.

Sadly they were all terrible for one reason or another. Html Area simply did not work very well and had too many options (allowing any user to seriously mess up the site). RTE was difficult to customize without playing around with the source Javascript. tinyMCE has a tag stripping function that is difficult to disable and ferocious (any html tags not properly entered in the database will be terminated without prejudice, including their attributes).

In the end, we shelled out the modest fee for WYSIWYG Pro and we were a whole lot happier and so was the client.

An attractive interface, easily configurable, CSS friendly and standards compliant. Some bugs with inline javascript shredding, but they seem to have been cleaned up after regular queries on the developer's forum (which is open to all - always a good sign).



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