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Ask HN: Do you know of a good WYSIWYG editor?
I'm searching for a good WYSIWYG editor, and I haven't been able to find much. By "good", I mean well designed, robust, and that it functions well. I saw a cool one made by Google as part of the CloudCourse app, but it was heavily dependent upon the Closure JavaScript library, which is not something I'd like to convert my app to just to use a WYSIWYG editor. Any help with this is much appreciated!
- timwiseman 16y agoEditor for what? If you are asking for a good text editor, I like Notepad++ and SciTe is not at all bad. If you want say a WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX, look at Lyx. If you want something else, could you specify?
- asnyder 16y agoTry CKEditor, http://www.ckeditor.com http://www.ckeditor.com. Most frameworks even have plug-in versions of it so you don't need to do very much to communicate with it. For example, our framework NOLOH has a CKEditor Nodule (NOLOH Module). You can see a live example of that here: http://www.noloh.com/NOLOH/Nodules/CKEditor/Example/ http://www.noloh.com/NOLOH/Nodules/CKEditor/Example/, and the source for the example here: http://github.com/noloh/CKEditor/blob/master/Example/index.php http://github.com/noloh/CKEditor/blob/master/Example/index.p... Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH
- ElbertF 16y agoCKEditor blows every other editor out there away in my opinion. It's a huge improvement over the older FCKEditor.
- evo_9 16y agoEdit: I have to agree with the vote for CKEdit, I hadn't looked at it in quite a while. The newest version is really excellent, ant it weighs in half the size as TinyMCE. http://ckeditor.com/ http://ckeditor.com/ FTW TinyMCE: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ Quite a nice WYSIWYG 'web-control' editor that I've used on a number of admin sites for my clients. They have a jquery version out now too that makes it a bit cleaner to integrate if you've already got jquery going (you can always run the regular, non-jquery version as well).
- izak30 16y agoIn short, no. Cross browser open licensed elegant wysiwyg is very weak. Goog has recently rewritten docs...I assume that wysiwyg (layout engine) had much to do with that. That being said, we get by with tinymce on most modern browsers (safari is a major pain). It has a pretty good API. For reference, that's a main part of our major product (servee.com) so I've dine a fair amount of research