List of external info on WYSIWYG editors

Editors with useable TWiki integrations are marked like this

WYSIWYG client-side HTML editors, working at least on IE & Moz+FF

• With source (or customizable to another syntax)
  • javascript
    • open source
      • htmlarea http://dynarch.com/mishoo/htmlarea.epl (v3.0)
        • No longer supported -- TW
      • kupu http://kupu.oscom.org/ (successor of Epoz) KupuContrib
      • fckeditor http://www.fckeditor.net/
      • tinymce http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ (works on Safari but not Konqueror) TinyMCEPlugin
        • Doesn't support Konqueror or Opera
      • spaw http://www.solmetra.com/en/disp.php/en_products/en_spaw/
      • rte http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/demo.htm
      • TTW WYSIWYG Web Editor http://www.koivi.com/WYSIWYG-Editor/
      • Wikiwyg
      • YUI Rich Text Editor http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/editor/ - YahooUserInterfaceContrib
        • Currently in beta. Excellent browser support, easy to extend.
    • commercial
      • wysiwygpro http://wysiwygpro.com commercial ($200), IE + Moz, Php backend, good reviews
      • xstandard http://xstandard.com/ IE + Moz
      • Asbru http://editor.hardcoreinternet.co.uk/ - Asbru HardCore Web Content Editor, works on Safari too Not public

Others:

• Bitflux http://www.bitfluxeditor.org/ Free, XML
• Active Edit http://www.cfdev.com/activedit/ Commercial, java, IE4+Moz+Safari, but needs windows on server
• Flash http://www.macromedia.com/software/drk/productinfo/product_overview/volume2/flash_components.html
• composite http://composite.mozdev.org/ Moz-only, work on any textarea
• cuneAform http://cuneaform.mozdev.org/editor/index.htm moz only
• mozile http://mozile.mozdev.org/ edit any part of a page in Moz
• mozex http://mozex.mozdev.org/ and Electrix http://electrix.mozdev.org/ to call emacs on a textarea in Moz

Reviews, Comparisions

• listing:
  • http://www.cmsreview.com/WYSIWYG/OpenSource/Directory.html
  • http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=190124
  • http://ims.co.nz/blog/archive/2004/12/19/176.aspx
  • http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/projects/cms/ttw/ttw.html
  • http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Authoring/HTML/WYSIWYG_Editors/
• Discussions of the wysiwyg addon for other web apps:
  • http://forums.postnuke.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=32861&start=15
  • http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/?htmlarea
  • http://seagull.phpkitchen.com/docs/wakka.php?wakka=WYSIWYGEditor
  • http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=9652
  • http://www.herve-thouzard.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?page=1&articleid=61 (French)

Technical infos

• http://www.jahia.org/jira/browse/JAHIA-165 problems in integrating htmlarea & jahia
• http://www.wf-projects.com/modules/ipboard/index.php?showtopic=287 koevi & xoops
• http://www.xaraya.org/index.php/release/891.html http://www.xaraya.org/index.php/release/3009.html http://www.xaraya.org/index.php/release/3010.html xaraya intergation of FCKEditor, HTMLArea, kupu

And Opera? they do not seem to care... http://my.opera.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59735

-- ColasNahaboo - 19 Jan 2005

Comparison table of online web editors

• TinyMCE offers the best features plus browser support.
• see TinyMCEContrib

But note that for a wiki simple WYSIWYG is not enough: a translation from HTML view to TML code would be needed.

• Wikiwyg looks promising. Safari is not supported. Update: actual findings in WikiWyg.
• see WikiwygContrib

See also this discussion page on wikimedia: WYSIWYG:HTML_to_Wiki_markup

-- ArthurClemens - 22 Apr 2007

I am still trying to get ingy to release some work he's done in WikiWyg to allow non-editable sections (ok actually mini-edit sections like I want for my ComponentEditor)

If anyone sees Ingy in real life.... please ask him, again and again

-- SvenDowideit - 22 Apr 2007

TinyMCE has existing support for non-editable sections.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 10 Aug 2007

Spaw seems to have made a lot of progress in V2. It was praised on phpcms forum and seems to have interesting features, notably Opera support.

-- ColasNahaboo - 11 Aug 2007

Yahoo's Rich Text Editor looks increasingly good. Supports Safari as well.

-- ArthurClemens - 24 Aug 2007