The rise of portals and content management systems (CMS) has enabled webmasters to create and to maintain websites without using expensive web tools and time-consuming file transfers. This comparison details the features and capabilities of these tools, which can be and, in some cases, already have been integrated into open-source applications like PHP-Nuke.
Name FCKEditor HTMLArea SPAW TinyMCE Xinha Version 2.1.1 3.0 RC1 1.1RC1 2.01 Not specified License LGPL BSD GPL LGPL BSD Internet Explorer 5.5+ 5.5+ 5.5+ Yes, version?? Yes, version?? Gecko (Firefox / Mozilla / Netscape) 1.0+ / 1.3+ / 7+ 1.3+ 1.3+ Yes, version?? Yes, version?? Opera No No No Not working No Safari No No No "Buggy" No Edit Cut / Copy / Paste * Gecko requires security settings Yes, with Gecko workaround Yes Yes, does not indicate Gecko Yes Yes Undo / Redo Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes HTML Cleanup / Paste from Word Yes No IE only Yes Yes Paste as text Yes No No Yes No Edit source HTML (raw) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Preview Yes No No Yes No Various sizes No No No IE Only No Find / Replace Yes No No Yes (replace all) Yes Select All (right click option in IE) Yes No No No No Insert Date / Time (use FireFox BBCode ext.) No No No Yes No Format Bold / Italic / Underline Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Subscript / Superscript Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Strikethrough Yes Yes No Yes Yes Text Color Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Background Color Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Fonts Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Text Size HTML size w/ examples HTML Size w/ pt desc Yes Yes HTML Size w/ pt desc Indent / Unindent Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Justify Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Left Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Center Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Right Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Full (Left & Right) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Direction (right / left) Yes No No No No Insert Page Break Yes ?? ?? Yes ?? CSS Classes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Document Properties Yes Yes No No Yes Emoticons / Smileys Yes No No Yes No Special characters Yes No No Yes Yes Remove Format Yes No No Yes Yes HTML Objects Anchors Yes No No Yes Yes Images (insert URL) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Upload Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Select Yes ?? Yes Yes Yes Properties Yes ?? Yes Yes Yes Alternate Image on Mouseover No No No Yes Yes Popup No No Yes Yes No Flash Yes No No Yes No Format (H1, etc.) Yes Yes No Yes Yes Form (create) Yes No No No No Text Yes No No No No Textarea Yes No No No No Checkbox Yes No No No No Radio Button Yes No No No No Button Yes No No No No Image Button Yes No No No No Hidden Field Yes No No No No Horizontal rule (line) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Height No No No Yes No Hyperlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Remove Yes No No Yes Yes List bullet / Ordered Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Tables (create) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Modify table properties Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Modify row properties No Yes No Yes Yes Modify cell properties Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Insert / delete rows Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Insert / delete columns Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Merge/split cells horizontally Yes Yes IE Only Yes Yes Merge/split cells vertically No Yes IE Only Yes Yes Toggle borders No No IE Only Yes Yes Background image No Yes Yes Yes Yes Control Skins / Themes Yes No Includes 4 Yes No Customizable Toolbars Yes Yes Includes 4 preset Yes Yes Horizontal and vertical toolbars No No Yes No No Same page, different config Yes ?? Yes Yes ?? Multiple language Yes ?? almost 30 included Yes ?? Auto Detect Yes No No No No Right to left support Yes No No Yes No Universal keyboard / extra character support Yes No No Yes No General Tooltips Yes Yes IE Only Yes Yes Plugins Yes Yes No Yes, commercial Yes Spell IE Only, SpellerPages integration available Yes No IE Only Yes Yes No No Yes No XHTML 1.0 support Yes ?? ?? Yes ?? Online Help No Yes No Yes No Right click context menus support Yes Yes No Yes Yes Complete page editing (from to ) or just contents. Yes No No No No Automatic browser detection and customization Yes No Yes No Yes Administration Documentation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Examples Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Size Subjective Speed OK OK OK OK OK Ease of installation Ease of customization User friendliness Comments Very nice visual table editor Custom spell checker works in IE and Gecko Some tools don't work under Firefox Nice image manager, visual table editor almost as nice as FCK, nice recent compliance enhancements Nice image functions, link manager available as plugin Paste from Word Test Some headings too large, included links correctly N/A Some headings too large, included links correctly Some headings too large, included links correctly Some headings too large, included links correctly
Comparison of browser-based WYSIWYG editorsPosted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 @ 14:03:48 CDT in General Sorry, Comments are not available for this article.
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