RE: Looking for in-browser HTML/text editors

Hi Darrel,

Please do check www.xopus.com. It's an in-browser XML editor. I guess it
support the things you want, as well.

You should also check the excellent JISC TechWatch Report
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/tsw_03-08.pdf (.pdf, 1,6 MB) 

Please inform the cms-list about the outcome of your quest.

Good luck!

Erik


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Austin, Darrel
> Sent: donderdag 20 mei 2004 20:54
> To: '[email protected]'
> Subject: [CMS] Looking for in-browser HTML/text editors
> 
> 
> I've asked this in a few places, but completely spaced on 
> asking it in here...the most logical place for this question...
> 
> We're building an in-house CMS for our organization and we're 
> now needing to pick an inline HTML editor for our admin 
> tools. There seems to be more browser-based html editors than 
> there are CMSes. I'm looking for one that would (ideally) 
> provide these features:
> 
> a) works in IE6/PC (though other browsers are bonus)
>    on the front end, .net server model on the back
>    end.
> 
> b) allows for admin-defined tags/CSS classes
> 
> c) allows admin's to block certain styling 
>    (namely in-line styles and presentational markup)
> 
> d) ability to clean pasted text from Word/Other 
>    HTML pages. Ideally, this could be a default/
>    automated behavior.
> 
> e) ability to create a link within the text that 
>    links to a file on the server that can be browsed 
>    to. (ie, select text >> click MAKE LINK >> select 
>    BROWSE >> browse to PDF on SERVER >> Click INSERT
>    LINK to make link)
> 
> f) Support for accessibility tags via the interface
>    (alt tags in images, title attributes in objects, 
>    TH tags, ACCRONYM tags, etc.)
> 
> I've looked at about about a dozen thus far: 
> http://www.darrelaustin.com/stuff/htmleditors.html
> 
> Most seem 
> to handle a-d OK. e, about half, and very few handle f.
> 
> One that I really like in terms of the markup it produces is 
> xstandard: http://xstandard.com/
> 
> It produces true xhtml, and has nice accessibility features 
> like TH tags, requires alt attributes, automatically creates 
> title attributes, has a built-in 'screen reader' preview. 
> It's nice. Ironically, the one editor that supports web 
> standards in its markups requires the ActiveX and IE. Since 
> we're windows-based and use IE here, we can live with that.
> 
> Other contenders are FCKedit and KTML. I really like the 
> output of Xstandard, but it lacks a bit in UI.
> 
> Anyways, before I spend too much more time looking for 
> others, I thought I'd ask the list if they'd recommend any 
> product based on the above criteria not already in my list so 
> far. I'm really looking for a 'clean, structured markup 
> editor' more than a 'wysiwyg' editor (If that makes sense ;o)
> 
> -Darrel
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