Re: Looking for in-browser HTML/text editors

I can't speak to your specific requirements, but on some projects I have 
used htmlArea (http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/), and 
then used HTML Tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) to clean up the 
source -- which can ensure XHTML, for instance, and any number of other 
issues (anything can arise when you can edit the HTML source, after 
all).  I prefer the server-side cleanup, as typically there are several 
kinds of cleanup that must be performed (e.g, removing domain names from 
links) and it's easiest to understand these in terms of filtering, and 
keeping the editor and these filters decoupled.

I haven't tried many other editors, but I found htmlArea very easy to 
work with and customize (e.g., it was pretty easy to add a link button 
that used a custom page browser), and it seems to have a capable plugin 
system.  As when comparing any open source product against commercial 
products, if there are specific features that are missing you should 
consider the cost to have those features added -- the authors of 
htmlArea specifically invite contract work.

-- 
Ian Bicking  /  [email protected]  /  http://blog.ianbicking.org