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Ask HN: Good JavaScript WYSIWYG Editor?

6 pointsaarongough4 comments

I am looking for a replacement for the Yahoo UI rich-text editor. Unfortunately I found it to be quite buggy...

So far I have tried TinyMCE, nicEdit, FCKEditor and CKEditor. I haven't been happy with any of them.

I am looking for something that looks modern, is simple to implement (like nicEdit) and is customizable. The editor is being used in a CMS built in Rails. I need to be able to change the 'insert image' and 'insert file' buttons in the editor so that they call the CMS's built in image and file browsers.

All help appreciated!

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Links to the editors I have already tried:

http://ckeditor.com/demo (a little slow in FF, seems a little hokey in general)

http://www.fckeditor.net/demo (crashes FF3 with it's slowness!)

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php (really slow to load in all browsers)

http://nicedit.com/demos.php (I liked this the most out of the alternatives so far, it's fast and lightweight but the HTML editor is not full-size and it's image properties box kind of misses the mark for my use)

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/editor/code_editor.h... (I had numerous problems with the editor's Image properties box disappearing and taking images with it, also setting up the editor to allow editing of raw HTML never really worked that well)

Tried WysiHat?

http://github.com/37signals/wysihat/

No I hadn't! Thanks!

I'm looking for something that comes a little more ready-to-roll unfortunately... I need to get a new editor in by tomorrow and I don't really have the time to setup something like this...

It sounds very similar overall to the YUI text editors...

It seems that after all that I will be going back to they YUI rich text editor. It's better than any of the alternatives that I have tried, and far more customizable.

If only I could get the disappearing image bug solved...

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