While working on our second assignment, we all decided that the webapp that we were developing required some sort of Text Editing capabilities.
Everyone then proceeded to research the available 3rd party options as we would not have the time to sit down and make our own. During our research we discovered that TinyMCE and FCKeditor were two of the more popular choices, which is why we decided to work with one of these two editors.
Although, our research indicated that FCKeditor was the more powerful of the two, everyone had difficulties in getting the package to work well with IIS. However, for our webapp TinyMCE provided all the necessary features that we were looking for and it was also very easy to get it integrated with our projects with little hassle.
Typically, the widget looks like a mini word processor, i.e. a toolbar on top with a rich editing area underneath.
Some of the standard features that a Rich Text Editor brings to the table include:
- Flexible font styles, sizes, boldfacing, etc.
- Flexible colour schemes.
- Embedded images.
- Embedded tables.
- Bullet-point and numeric lists.
- Indenting and flexible text alignment.
All these features are usually accessible by the toolbar, and also via keyboard shortcuts.
Although, the editors may seem a bit complex, they have been developed in such a way that anyone from the beginner to the advanced web developer can implement them into their applications.
For a comprehensive comparison of a majority of 3rd party Rich Text Editors visit the following site:-
http://geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors
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