WYSIHTML5: An Open Source Rich Text Editor
WYSIHTML5
is an open source rich text editor based on HTML5 technology and the
progressive-enhancement approach. It uses a sophisticated security
concept and aims to generate fully valid HTML5 markup by preventing
unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles.
Published at DZone with permission of Hirvesh Munogee, author and DZone MVB. (source)Features
- It's fast and lightweight (smaller than TinyMCE, Aloha, ...)
- Auto-linking of urls as-you-type
- Generates valid and semantic HTML5 markup (even when the content is pasted from MS Word)
- Uses class names instead of inline styles
- Unifies line break handling across browsers
- Uses sandboxed iframes in order to prevent identity theft through XSS
- Speech-input for Chrome
- No jQuery required
Browser Support
- Firefox 3.5+
- Chrome
- IE 8+
- Safari 4+
- Safari on iOS 5+
- Opera 11+
- Graceful degradation: Unsupported browsers will get a <textarea>
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