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Wednesday  2002-06-05   Software

Cross platform WYSIWYG HTML editor


In the beginning Tim Berners-Lee made his original browser double as an WYSIWYG editor. Sadly this was not to last. Since then we have had two types of editors:

  1. desktop application like Dreamweaver, Homesite, etc.
  2. Java applets or Javascript running on browsers.
The first type of editors are bound to specific desktop or OS. The second type are browser specific ie Internet Explorer. Only the text area widget of browsers is cross platform - the lowest common denominator of HTML editor and it's not WYSIWYG.

Now there is a truly browser neutral WYSIWYG HTML editor thanks to Stuart Schoneveld - another example of Flash's power of delivery and deployment. Given that Flash can be packaged into an executable, someday soon we may get an usable editor on both desktops and webtops, cross platform.

References: Timothy Appnel's blog Jon Udell's blog and his column The Universal Canvas


 
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