Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WYSIWYG editor

Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by snorkel on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @06:33PM (#339460)

Isn't about time the damn web browsers give us a native rich edit control already, the way Tim Bernes-Lee first imagined the web content editing would be like? Then can we have a file upload control that can be styled and select multiple files?

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Re: Introducing WysiHat: An eventually better open source WY... by apgwoz on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @06:50PM (#339483)

> Isn't about time the damn web browsers give us a native rich edit control already,

Modern WYSIWYG editors use an IFRAME with the property designMode="On". The problem that the actual editor solves is manipulating that. So browsers do have native rich edit already, it just needs to be summoned.

> Then can we have a file upload control that can be styled and select multiple files?

Agreed. Trying to create a usable file uploading interface is annoying, but there are some hacks to add Drag and Drop support and things. (Safari [Mac] supports D&D, not sure though about other platforms/browsers.)

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