[WEB4LIB] RE: xhtml compliant WYSIWYG editor

[Randy Norwood]

At Texas Tech Univ library, I developed a fairly simple CMS based on PHP and
MySQL. I selected a commercial product, eWebeditPro (www.ektron.com), for
the editor. It's primarily wysiwyg, but also allows direct editing of HTML.
It's supposed to produce valid XHTML, but it also has many configuration
options that, if not properly set, will allow non-compliant XHTML to be
generated. I haven't had the time or inclination to tweak and test it to
make sure the output is fully compliant. It seems to be good enough, and I'm
pleased with the product. Some of the content providers who have used
Dreamweaver, HomeSite and other full-featured editors can feel constrained
by this CMS editing interface.

Another product I've kept an eye on, but haven't evaluated yet, is FckEditor
(<http://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor/>), which is free. It has the
advantage of not requiring IE (it works in Mozilla/Firefox as well as IE).


-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Randy Norwood
Web  Manager
Texas Tech University Libraries
Office: 806-742-2238  x318
Fax: 806-742-8669
E-mail: randy.norwood at ttu.edu




On 01/12/05 12:17 PM, "Lynne Jones" <mljones at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>