WYSIHTML5 - A Better Approach To Rich Text Editing
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WYSIHTML5 - A Better Approach To Rich Text Editing
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WYSIHTML5 is an open source rich text editor based on HTML5 technology and the progressive-enhancement approach. It uses a sophisticated security concept and aims to generate fully valid HTML5 markup by preventing unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles.
Requirements: None
Demo: http:/ / xing. github. com/ wysihtml5/
License: MIT License
Features
- It's fast and lightweight (smaller than TinyMCE, Aloha, ...)
- Auto-linking of urls as-you-type
- Generates valid and semantic HTML5 markup (even when the content is pasted from MS Word)
- Uses class names instead of inline styles
- Unifies line break handling across browsers
- Uses sandboxed iframes in order to prevent identity theft through XSS
- Speech-input for Chrome
- No jQuery required
Browser Support
- Firefox 3.5+
- Chrome
- IE 8+
- Safari 4+
- Safari on iOS 5+
- Opera 11+
- Graceful degradation: Unsupported browsers will get a <textarea>
Requirements: None
Demo: http:/ / xing. github. com/ wysihtml5/
License: MIT License
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