is using TinyMCE a top choice for WYSIWYG editor on a webpage? What are good alternatives?

Question

is using TinyMCE a top choice for WYSIWYG editor on a webpage? What are good alternatives?

some comparison seems to show that TinyMCE is one of the most compatible

Answer 1

No one has mentioned the CuteEditor yet. It's got a silly name, but it's actually quite nice to work with. It's not free, but an enterprise license (which allows you to use it on any number of servers, dev workstations etc) is only 900 bucks or something ridiculously cheap. I believe it's only availble for ASP.Net and classic ASP, though I could be wrong.

Answer 2

TinyMCE and FCKeditor are the top two WYSIWYG editors in terms of popularity. They are both feature-rich and highly customizable. In my opinion TinyMCE is the easiest to use and maintain of the myriad different options, and still gets my vote after 4 years of usage. YUI is another nice choice worth evaluating, as are the others listed above. I've listed the demo pages for each below:

• Tiny
• FCK (current site demo is broken, here's a cached site)
• YUI
• OpenWYSIWYG

I'm liking this Stack Overflow one as well though, +1 to the crew.
-EDIT- but then -1 because you treated me like a spammer with only 1 allowed hyperlink...

HTH
Jeff M.

Answer 3

This is one of the best in my opinion:

http://www.openwebware.com/

Answer 4

As many have said here, FCKEditor is a good alternative. However, pay attention to the licensing models of the editors especially if you're planning on using them for a commercial, closed-source application.

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/license.php

TinyMCE is just LGPL.

http://ckeditor.com/license

CKEditor (the most recent manifestation of FCK Editor) has a separate Closed Distribution License which may cost you some moulah...

I like the feature set and theme of FCKEditor/CKEditor better than TinyMCE but I often end up using TinyMCE due to it being a little simpler to handle in terms of licensing.

Answer 5

Why not try the Stackoverflow site's solution?

you can find details in Stackoverflow's blog post here : Potential Markup and Editing Choices

Answer 6

If you are using PHP or ASP.NET on the back end, take a look at SPAW Editor.