My Rails app needs a decent rich text editor, but nothing out there
really seems to do what I want. Looking at the code for these
editors, they all seem horrendously browser specific, full of
workarounds and multiple methods of doing things.
So, I''ve written a proof-of-concept rich text editor, using
Prototype, which works through DOM manipulation.
http://www.fluffy.co.uk/stediting/
This shows it''s possible to do structured and styled text editing
without resorting to those nasty browser specific things like
contentEditable and designMode. Not using the browser''s editing
removes the need to do the markup cleaning and continually adjusting
the code to keep up with the browsers.
This approach also allows a lot more control in what is edited, and
surprisingly, the code seems about the same complexity as other
editors. I was very surprised to find that it works in just about any
recent browser, only needing a few ''unnecessary'' lines of code
to
work around Safari bugs.
Is anyone interested in helping me to finish this? I haven''t done
much with javascript before, so I may not have done things quite
properly and could do with the help of a javascript guru. But please
don''t let that put you off looking at the code!
Ben
