WYSIWYG in a browser

[DCT Jared Smith]

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:29:56 -0500, Bradley Miller wrote:
>On to the subject of that CMS "spam", I've been hunting for a good web
>browser based WYSIWYG editor for the Linux/Windows/etc... side of things
>for a while.  I've found several $$$$ ones that claim IE/Netscape
>compatibility but they're out of my budget range for right now.  I've found
>a pretty good one, but it's IE based and really hacks the HTML.  I would
>love to see one that worked across Mozilla/Opera/IE/Netscape . . . maybe
>I'm dreaming.  Anyone else have any opinions or work in this area?

This exact question came up recently on the dynAPI list.
dynAPI is a cross-browser API for DHTML; these folks
spend their hours working on this kind of problem, and it ain't
solved yet.

<snip from the dynAPI conversation:>
"You are right. Every wysywig browser editor are based on the DHTMLedit component
available on every win32 platforms. To be able to use it on a NS4/mozilla based
browser, it exists a plugins that wrap an activex inside itself and make it available
from JS, I do not remember the name of the company, will look deeper in my bookmarks
and post the link if needed ;).
</snip>

No one requested him to look deeper into his bookmarks; a diligent
twenty minutes in front of Google would probably turn it up.

If you are interested in coding this, you'd probably get some
help since others need it too... I'd start with the dynAPI folks.

I really really like dynapi.

You may not be able to get it to work in Opera. Opera is a hard
browser to code DHTML for; MOZ and IE are equally competent
at all DOM manipulation.

-Jared