Open Source Web Editors

Open Source Editors

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Win/IE only. Load and save content through html or xml import internal and linked stylesheets. The file upload component makes use of the ADO Stream object, which limits its use to the Win32 platform. In beta, and last update was May 2003.

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Firefox/Mozilla. Usable with XHTML & XML Documents. In production release. Version 1 released March 2003, last updated December 2004. Version 2 planned for winter of 2005.

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Windows only. In production release. Last update was August 2001.

Part of the Plone Collective project, which includes various tools for the Plone and/or Zope Frameworks. In early beta, and last updated March 2003.

ComposIte

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Anything that will run Mozilla. ComposIte is a chrome overlay which enables a streamlined Mozilla Editor for html composition in textareas. Once installed you'll be able to edit a textarea the wysiwyg Mozilla Composer module. Broken by Mozilla editing in 1.3 and above.

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Evolution of Kevin Roth's Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor with some enhancements but without Spell Checker or HTML code view. Sub-project of .

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Kevin Roth's award winning Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor is mostly a demonstration project, but is an excellent starter for other browsers and is fully public domian.

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A very slick looking extension of the Dojo framework. Haven't had the time to fully inventigate, but well worth loooking at further. Not 100% sure of which browsers are supported - have only tested Firefox and IE so far.

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Created because of problems ... finding a WYSIWYG editor for Safari and OS X Dashboard widgets.

Windows only. Working on cross-platform version.

Open source Java HTML web editor. Cross platform - does not list browser support. More of a stand alone Java application than most of this editors.

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A cross-browser-wysiwyg-editor for Zope (and ). Epoz allows you to edit Zope-objects with a wysiwyg-editor. No plugins are required. CSS support.

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Very powerful and easy to integrate, and includes all the bells and whistles, such as spell checking and image upload. Only problem is the name, which stands for Frederico Caldeira Knabben Editor.

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Windows only. ASP.NET control written in C# that seems in be quite popular and is actively developed and enhanced. Last updated in May 2005.

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Very popular and flexible editor. Development seems to have stopped, and the htmlArea.com site lists htmlArea as "discontinued". Active development is being carried on with Xinha (see below), a successor to htmlArea.

Windows only. Last updated August 2002.

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Windows only

IE Editor for Zope

Windows only but not Zope only. Extended to work with and CMF/Plone (). Looks like it is in beta and not being actively developed, but website is unclear.

Windows only. Replaced recently by , which supports multiple browsers.

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Windows only and Zope only

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Windows only, PHP. "This Project Has Not Released Any Files."

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Kupu is a 'document-centric' open source client-side XHTML editor for Mozilla, Netscape and Internet Explorer. Inspired by Maik Jablonski's Epoz editor, it was originally written by Paul Everitt, Guido Wesdorp and Philipp von Weitershausen.

Mozile

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MozillaInlineEditor is an in-browser, context-sensitive, XHTML editor that allows a user to edit all or just specific editable sections of any XHTML page from the comfort of his own browser.

No longer uses Midas name for trademark reasons

Rich text editing control for Mozilla. This is NO LONGER CALLED MIDAS. See demo (you need Mozilla 1.3+).

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The WYSIWYG online editor is for use with IE >5.5 on Windows clients - and Mozilla 1.3 and above. On MacOS the WYSIWYG online editor is only working in Mozilla 1.3 and above. The WYSIWYG online editor is NOT working in Opera and IE5.

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Windows only. Also availible as an executable.

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Enhancement of , which it supersedes as that was developed for IE only. Last updated Dec. 19, 2005.

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Windows only. Includes an built-in JavaScript Editor, Form Editor and MetaTag wizard.

Open Source 2002

Windows only. Limitations: Only one editor control per page. Author: Kim Bach Petersen · [e-mail]. Version: 1 Build: 2"

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says: "Our skyWriter for Internet Explorer is just the Dynamic HTML Control from Microsoft. Our skyWriter for Mozilla may be the first full HTML visual editor for Mozilla (since Bitflux and Xopus are XML editors). The important thing about both skyBuilders skyWriters is that they are open source and license free. No per-seat or per-server charges like the leading tools. Of course they aren't as sophisticated as Ektron at the moment, but we hope to add more features."

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Platform independent. CSS support. Server: PHP4 on any compatible OS (PHP edition), .NET Framework 1.0 on any ASP .NET compatible OS (ASP .NET edition). Version 2.0.0 is in beta and due out January 2007.

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Requires FlashMX

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Windows only. No download yet. Last update was 2001.

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Platform independent Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate into other CMS systems. Opera browser support requres Opera 9.0 Preview 1.

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A web content editor for use in custom Content Management Systems (CMS).

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ASP based rich editor requires Windows based server but cross platform clients. Full set of features for textarea replacement. Created by Bruce Corkhill. Last updated March 7, 2005.

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Looks like a fairly light weight (as in size, not as in features) rich text editor. Last updated December 23, 2005.

but donation requested

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Intentionally very light weight (as in size, not as in features) rich text editor with fewer features than many others, but very easy to integrate. Last updated March 9, 2005, but update due out soon.

Very new and preliminary, but exciting WYSIWYG editor focused on use with Wikis. Iffy in Internet Explorer, better in Firefox so far.

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Still in early stages, this editor takes a somewhat different approach by showing some tags even while it is mostly WYSIWYG. Refers to itself as WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean). Only just barely fits the definition of TTW editing, but may be good for some structured uses.

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IE and Netscape (with ActiveX plug-in from )

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Successor to htmlArea, this is an excellent and easy to use editor.

Windows only. Last update in April 2002, and now official "Inactive" according to SourceForge.