htmlArea was a DHTML widget that replacedtextareaelements with a full WYSIWYG editor on most modern browsers.
The project has since mutated and the site itself has since been turned into a generic directory of similar widgets, but given that Safari’s HTML editing was fundamentally broken until version 3, I started keeping a mini-directory of similar efforts here.
Resources:
| Date | Link | Category | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | |||
| Jan | wysihtml5 | JavaScript | An HTML5-oriented effort, in use by XING. |
| 2009 | |||
| Feb 13 | WYMeditor | JavaScript | a very nice What You See Is What You Mean editor. |
| Older | Flash Text Area | Flash | works pretty well, even considering the formatting options are very limited |
| flashArea | free, $5 for source code. Does images, but has a bazillion standalone .swf files for each button. |
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| Obedit | pretty good for text-only input, doesn’t do images. | ||
| Flash text editor | pretty old. | ||
| Wikiwyg | JavaScript | Mozilla-only, very old. | |