Rich Text Editor - IE, Firefox, Safari ?

Things should be easier.

Why can’t I do the following with HTML:

<textarea richtext=”yes”
buttons=”bold,italic,copy,cut,paste,lists,…”
resizable=”yes” … >

It would display something like this:

When submitting the rich textarea it would simply POST well-formatted HTML as you would expect. You wouldn’t need a huge download, buggy javascript, different editor widgets for each site. You could have the same consistent spell checker every where.

Instead I’ll use Moxie’s Tiny-MCE with it’s little idiosyncracies.

Next Up: W3C, where’s my drag-and-drop image upload standard?

Comments 1

  1. andrew wrote:

    sheesh, next thing you’ll be asking for is css-based valign! what kind of crazy nut are you?

    Posted 24 Feb 2007 at 8:22 am

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