[WEB4LIB] RE: xhtml compliant WYSIWYG editor

[Lynne Jones]

After a lot of trial and error I'm currently testing Advanced HTML
editor - it looks very promising. Find more info here:
http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=6999

No font tags produced (or <br> tags), XHTML compliant and supports CSS.

It is also very straightforward to set up, reasonably priced and it
integrates with Dreamweaver MX 2004 so can be accessed easily via the
Dreamweaver interface.

(and no I don't have shares in the company!)

>From a UK librarian who reads this list with great interest.

Regards
Lynne Jones
IT Librarian
Conwy Library and Information Service, North Wales
 







-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jeph Remley
Sent: 12 January 2005 17:42
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: xhtml compliant WYSIWYG editor

Here at Kent State University Libraries & Media Services, we also built 
a CMS using PHP, and first added in Editize (http://www.editize.com/) as

our WYSIWYG editor.  Over time we had Java problems, with the editor 
crashing for some of our content providers, locking up, etc...  Updating

the JRE for staff members etc didn't always result in reliable fixes, so

we decided to try another editor - DevEdit (http://www.editlet.com/). 
That editor seems to work ok, and I believe cranks out cleaner code (I 
haven't looked at the resulting code lately - I don't recall how clean 
it is), and seems more reliable.

We've actually given our content providers the option to choose between 
editors - they can set this along with other preferences as part of the
CMS.

The two editors DO have their differences - how they render/develope 
unordered/ordered lists (especially when indenting embedded/sub-lists!),

options when building a table (which, for the most part, we've blocked 
from the WYSIWYG options so our users can't use tables for layout 
purposes), etc.  If I remember right, Editize generated less-clean code 
than DevEdit.

We've also considered Editlet (http://www.editlet.com/), but realized we

couldn't easily install a trial copy here for testing without more 
trouble than it may be worth at the moment.

 From the sounds of your msg, you're not looking for a Contribute or 
Dreamweaver type solution - you're actually looking for an application 
that can be incorporated into the code of your CMS?  (FWIW, I've notice 
some of the code generated by Contribute in our intranet pages isn't 
very clean either....was sort of surprise!)

Jeph Remley
Multimedia/Web Developer
Kent State University
Libraries & Media Services
Systems Dept
330 672 3090
jremley at lms.kent.edu