Can you suggest a Non-HTML WYSIWYG web editor?

Question

I am scouting the market for a good WYSIWYG editor. My users are going to write stuff just like I'm doing now on Stack Overflow, but they aren't as tech-savvy as the SO users, so I need a WYSIWYG editor instead of this Markdown editor.

Feature-wise, I'd like the editor to have approximately the same features as the buttons that this editor has, i.e. bold/italic/links/quotes/lists(numbered/bulleted)/headings. More features are of course interesting.

I'd like the editor not to save in HTML, but instead use some other format, like BBCode or Markdown. This is since I want to minimize the probability of our users injecting scripts or any other nastiness into our database.

There is a lot of different WYSIWYG editors out there, like FCKeditor, TinyMCE etc etc, but unfortunately most of them save in HTML.

TinyMCE has a BBCode mode, though, but I read that TinyMCE is kind of bloated. I stumbled upon a Markdown WYSIWYG project which seems to be more or less dead.

Do you have any other recommendations?

It's a plus if the editor is built on jQuery.

Answer 1

You should check out MarkItUp (http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/). It is built on jQuery and has support for various markup syntaxes (Markdown, wiki, BBcode, etc). Also, I believe it is fairly lightweight (at least more so than tinyMCE or FCKeditor).