WysiwygDev

JS based

Wikiwyg - Can be used with FF Greasemonkey to happen automatically on any site. Most interesting feature: allows editor to switch between: wiki markup \| wysiwyg \| html \| Preview modes

Java based

Wikiwizard

Flash based

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userpageterris: ysoya's demo is nice. Why wasn't it used in Tiki Wiki 1.8? My users' #1 complaint about TikiWiki is the editor. See also EditorDev.

It seems to me that Wikis and BBSs like phpBB, like XML-based content managers, are fundamentally anti-HTML, whether that is DHTML or XHTML. Sometimes this is a GoodThing, for example with the magic you can do by merely beginning a line with !-.

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[+] Wow, this is amazing. Two characters creates a paragraph that can be expanded by a click of the mouse

Unfortunately, a lot of this crazy syntax is like stepping back 20 years. Try to type a left bracket or a left curly brace or a less than sign. Try to enter some XML as if you were writing an XML primer. Where did it go? Well gee, these are special characters in Wiki syntax. How do you escape them? How to you parse Wiki text? etc. This is why SGML, HTML, and XML exist today. It's unfortunate that Ward Cunningham ignored all of this effort in the interst of speed (Wiki). Because what you end with is proprietary text that can only be displayed by one particular Wiki flavor. Existing editors like Dream Weaver and parsers like Xerces can't be hijacked. That is a BadThing. Locking content into one presentation format isn't a good idea in the long run. Some form of XML, like DocBook, is a much better strategy. However, writing XML in a TextArea is very inconvenient, hence the Wiki syntax.

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WysiwygDev

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