Which WYSIWYG editor is best for a content management site?

Question

The editor I require, needs to be easy to use. Even for people with absolutely no HTML knowledge

The projects I have tried are:

1. TinyMCE
2. ckeditor.com

What I'm looking for is:

1. Editor like TinyMCE editor with a live view like in stackoverflow site.
2. A way to insert pictures, and arrange them in the article.

EDIT: THe best solution that I think about it right now is to use:

3. TinyMCE for WYSIWYG editor.

4. Write custom code that will show it live in real article format.

5. Write Ajax code that will upload the pictures to the site and then the editor can arrange them in the article, based on their ID/name.

What do you think about solution? Maybe you have a better idea?

Answer 1

StackOverflow uses Markdown syntax and the WMD Editor

Markdown is a very nice way to create valid HTML but its feature list is much shorter than the TinyMCE Editor. It might be quite useful for your users, provided they don't need the extra functionality.

Other options you may want to consider are:

• The What you mean is what you get editor.
• The YUI editor from Yahoo

Answer 2

I have enjoyed using WYMeditor in the sites we build using ExpressionEngine (a CMS).

Pros:

• will not allow invalid xhtml
• lets you specify a stylesheet for it list rules from so the user can easily apply styles to content
• code view for those who know html/css and need to tweak something
• supports image placement (not sure you can upload through it though, the CMS we use has its own file upload utility)
• it has passed the mom/client test for us without fail

Cons:

• will not allow invalid xhtml... sometimes you really really REALLY want to just give up and use that <center> tag