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Open-source WYSIWYG editors: not quite there yet?

I'm looking for a free HTML editor suitable for end-users that are less comfortable entering html in a textarea. The most advanced open-source projects that fit this description seem to be xinha, a fork of the discontinued HTMLArea, and FCKEditor. Both suffer from problems with corrupting the browser history; bug reports are here and here (and here too). I note though that blogger's proprietary editor doesn't have this problem.

Breaking my back button is a serious usability problem. I note that both of these projects have huge amounts of features, far more than Blogger does. This would actually be a drawback to me if I were to deploy one, since I'd have to figure how to turn all the bloat off. Perhaps a project that focused less on features and more on usability could succeed better here.

(Please, if there's one out there that I missed, point me to it.)

Comments

Anonymous said…
Try Tinymce ( tinymce).

Very easy to integrate, very easy to strip-down ...
Anonymous said…
Though it does have a lot of features too,
you might be interested in checking out Kupu:

http://kupu.oscom.org
Jonathan Ellis said…
I will check those out. Thanks!
Anonymous said…
Check out FreeTextBox at http://www.FreeTextBox.com. They have a free version and another that costs something like $50.
Ian Bicking said…
I haven't looked closely at TinyMCE, but I was fairly happy with HTMLArea in the past, and am planning to use Xinha in the future -- my biggest problem with HTMLArea was the opaque development methodology, which is exactly why Xinha exists.