Building a custom Web based WYSIWYG

[scouse]

Hey,

Just here to pick some brains really.

Quite a long time ago I created a WYSIWYG interface for a CMS I created for a clients website. At the time it was a bit of a rush job and just needed to do the job.

I used this tutorial

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/HTML/Building-a-WYSIWYG-HTML-Editor-Part-1/

as the basis for it and added various other features.

At the time its only requirement was to work in IE and it did that just fine.

Now I've got a bit of spare time and I fancy trying to improve the system, make it more web complient with CSS/XHTML and also make it compatable on different browsers on PC and Mac.

So I was wondering what people's approach to this would be. Is it possible to use the above tutorial as a basis to start this or would I have to approach it from a totally different angle (using different coding languages) etc.

I know there are lots of free and paid systems out there that I could just use, but I've got some free time and I'm interested in trying to do this from scratch (Just to learn and improve my skills)

So like I said I'm just here to pick brains and see what people's thoughts are on this.

Thanks

[tvn]

Maybe the reason you haven't had any responses is that most people would either opt for one of the existing solutions or try and customise/improve on one of the open-source solutions? There seem to be a heck of a lot of client-side HTML editors out there.

Still, I hate to discourage you from what you want to do. Perhaps it would be useful for you to think about what would make yours different? It's satisfying to say you've built something yourself, but even better to present something new -- even if it's built on someone else's codebase.

As for languages, is there anything else but Javascript for a client-side editor?

Tim

[ray326]

most people would either opt for one of the existing solutionsBingo.
As for languages, is there anything else but Javascript for a client-side editor?Java applets, Active-X, Flash, that sort of thing. Of course if you do it as Active-X no one in their right mind would use it.