htmlArea was a DHTML widget that replaced textarea elements with a full WYSIWYG editor on most modern browsers.
The project has since mutated into Xinha (which appears to be the most full-featured fork) and the site itself has since been turned into a generic directory of similar widgets, of which I picked out TinyMCE - it works on Firefox and IE, and was nearly working on Safari 1.3.
However, Safari's HTML editing is fundamentally broken on both 1.3 and 2.0, and will probably not be as good as, say Firefox's until the new version comes out, which makes efforts like FCKEditor's somewhat unfeasible for the moment.
Resources:
Flash Alternatives:
- Flash Text Area - works pretty well, even considering the formatting options are very limited (Open Source).
- flashArea - free, $5 for source code. Does images, but has a bazillion standalone .swf files for each button.
- Obedit - pretty good for text-only input, doesn't do images.
- Flash text editor - pretty old.