TinyMCE 2.0
February 7, 2006, 10:30 PM | 2 Comments
If you’ve ever gone on a hunt for a good ‘What You See Is What You Get’ (WYSIWYG) text editor to use for your web applications, you’ll probably know that there are many options out there. I’ve used several different editors, all with their own pros and cons. htmlArea, Xinha, and FCKEditor are all fairly common free or mostly free WYSIWYG editors that will get the job done without too much hassle.
My editor of choice however is TinyMCE from Moxiecode Systems. If you’ve never heard of it or never used it before, I highly recommend that you take a look at it and try it out. Configuration is pretty simple (provided you know some JavaScript) and TinyMCE will generate great XHTML code.
Some of the latest features that have been added in version 2.0 are really useful, such as the ability to re-size the editor on the fly. If you use other WYSIWYG editors in your content management systems, you’ll know that one of the biggest requests that clients have is to be able to re-size the editor window. TinyMCE handles this very well.
Check out some of the examples on TinyMCE’s site to see if it works for you. I just found out yesterday that it works for WordPress.
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1. wslaat - February 10, 2006, 9:22 PM
I use FCKEditor, and I think it’s good enough to not look for another editor. that’s doesn’t mean the other editors are not good enough to use, maybe one day I will shift to TinyMCE!
2. Jonathan Eckmier - February 17, 2006, 9:27 PM
I took a long hard look at FCKEditor before I decided on TinyMCE. The main reasons that I chose TinyMCE over FCK were because TinyMCE generates better code (in my opinion) and I found that TinyMCE was a little easier to customize.
I ran across TinyFCK the other day… it’s a project that combines FCKEditor’s File Manager with TinyMCE.