Re: Looking for in-browser HTML/text editors

I would like to strongly endorse XStandard as the editor which
generates the most valid and accessible HTML I've seen.
The developers also encourage feedback on an accessibility forum
at http://www.accessifyforum.com/
(cf. http://www.accessifyforum.com/forum17/?sid=36a2f42e6728d4e8a0253aa651cbd8a7)

However, I believe it is not possible for any editor to clean up
pasted Word text in any meaningful way, since what they are given
to work with is always the same gunk generated by the Word/Windows
copy/paste function.

If you want accessible, valid HTML, then you might be better off
disabling the ability to paste from Word, or convert it to plain text.



At 19:53 20/05/2004, Austin, Darrel wrote:

>d) ability to clean pasted text from Word/Other
>   HTML pages. Ideally, this could be a default/
>   automated behavior.
>
>
>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/

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