Sent by Soren Vejrum on 6 November 2003 11:11
Hi,
Yes, it is quite easy to make a very basic cross-browser editor for
Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla. However, when you go into
details and more advanced functionality it is very tricky and time
consuming to deal with plenty of differences and limitations in both web
browsers. That is probably one reason why you only see few cross-browser
editors and a number of them still in beta even after quite a long time
with "contenteditable" support in Mozilla.
For example, our HardCore Web Content Editor
(http://editor.hardcoreinternet.co.uk/), consists of approximately 1800
lines of common Javascript code and 450 / 700 lines of Microsoft
Internet Explorer / Mozilla specific Javascript code.
So you should probably think twice before you take a quick decision to
make you own cross-browser - unless you only need very basic
functionality - or you want to take it on as a challenge and get to know
your web browsers intimately. :-)
Best regards,
Soren Vejrum
HardCore Internet Ltd.
John Luxford wrote:
> As to your second point about Mac support -- our system uses a custom
> built WYSIWYG editor (wrote it myself, actually :)) -- and it runs
> both in MSIE 5.5+ and Mozilla 1.3+ on all platforms. It actually runs
> better in Mozilla, despite the implementation being a lot newer than
> Microsoft's. Gauging from the level of difficulty/lack-thereof in
> adding Mozilla support (very little difference), I would say that most
> browser-based WYSIWYG editors will be cross-platform compatible in the
> near future. I'm actually surprised to hear Ektron behind the game on
> that one... then again, they probably have quite a bit more
> functionality than average that needs thorough testing. Makes sense.
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