Wikiwyg

From http://www.wikiwyg.net/about/ :

Wikiwyg is a Javascript library that can be easily integrated into any wiki or blog software. It offers the user multiple ways to edit/view a piece of content:

• Wysiwyg mode - Simple, HTML, Design Mode editing.
• Wikitext mode - Standard, Wiki, Text Area editing.
• HTML mode - Raw HTML editing.
• Preview mode - Display mode without saving changes.

Wikiwyg allows you to switch between modes, delegating some of the processing to the server when necessary.

See also related blog of Ross Mayfields, http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/wikiwyg.html

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Aug 2005

The Socialtext wiki as seen in WikiWednesdays wiki uses this editor. One advantage of this WYSIWYG editor is that you can switch between view mode / edit mode / WYSIWYG mode almost instantaneously.

-- PeterThoeny - 13 Feb 2006

I have integrated wikiwyg into TWiki, and it was pretty pointless for anything other than trivial wiki general syntax (bold, italic etc) as it just re-implements the renderer in javascript. Once you get to more complex syntax, you get nothing. There is a suggestion in the code that some Ajax style mechanism is intended to fill this gap, but I have my doubts wrt the long term effecacy of Ajax for this sort of thing - as its usability relies on very fast turnarounds from the remote server - which only works if you have lots of spare server capacity - which TWiki.org does not look like ever having.

-- SvenDowideit - 13 Feb 2006

Care to share your results?

-- DrewStevenson - 12 Sep 2006

ah, sorry - InlineEditPlugin was originally coded up to use wikiwyg, but as the research continued, its migrated away from that functionality. I'm making a new WikiWyg to twiki impl this week, adding it to WysiwygPlugin - basically as a drop in replacement for kupu. I'm not sure if it will be releaseable, but i'll make it public soonish, even if just to show where WikiWyg is at now.

-- SvenDowideit - 13 Sep 2006