XHTML compliant online rich-text editor
With the launch of a new JavaScript XHTML WYSIWYG editor, Xinha, a quick overview of the competition.
Popular rich-text editors that support XHTML are:
- TinyMCE: one of the first and still very popular. Has almost every feature you can imagine (including resizing of images). Used by WordPress and many other CMS’s. Liberal license.
- XStandard: despite the nice features, their licensing is a major issue. You pay per user and I assume for most that isn’t an option. It explains why their customers are large enterprises. The Lite version misses a lot of useful features you probably can’t do without.
- FCKeditor: probably the most popular but in my opinion, FCK lacks usability (some options aren’t as user friendly as they could be, e.g. creating tables). Also a liberal license.
- KTML: shined where TinyMCE and FCK disappointed, but sadly enough, Adobe decided to discontinue KTML. XHTML support was troublesome though.
The built-in ExtJs HTML editor is really promising, but it currently does not generate XHTML. However: it at least looks as clean and usable as an online editor should be: with just a few more features it will be unbeatable.
Unless I’m steadily becoming blind, there still isn’t a really awesome solution for online rich text editing. And I’m sure it is not a case of little demand…
Tags: javascript, xhtml
