“Wikis need WYSIWYG editors” — Ward Cunningham
In a recent interview (last fall), Ward Cunningham
highlighted the most pressing unresolved problem with wikis : the lack
of a simple and familiar editing interface for most users. Asked
what one thing he would change about Wikipedia, he said immediately, “I’d put a WYSIWYG editor in front of it.“
Since then, no progress has been made towards changing the default editor for Wikipedia or for MediaWiki in general. But discussions today with non-MediaWiki developers at the start of Wikimania’s Hacking Days
suggest that modern web-based WYSIWYG editors are becoming fairly
mature and fast, and are certainly reasonable as interface options, if
not as the default option, for wiki users.
Brett Stilwell
August 14, 2005 @ 3:09 pm
FCKeditor is an LGPL editor for web clients.
http://www.fckeditor.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor/