[thelist] Re: XStandard vs. HTMLArea

Mark Mandel mark.mandel at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 19:44:47 CDT 2004


The CVS version of HTMLArea will provide compliant XHTML 1.0 markup.

Just not the RC1.

Mark


On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:15:06 -0400, Clive R Sweeney
<clive at designshift.com> wrote:
> Tim Burgan wrote:
> > I'm creating a content management area for a website I'm building.
> >
> > I'm thinking of using XStandard [1], HTMLArea [2], or a similar
> > alternative in the form of a Java Applet.
> 
> Your two main candidates are XStandard and HTMLarea. Does it matter to
> you that XStandard is promoted as an "advanced, standards-based XHTML
> WYSIWYG editor" while the examples given on the HTMLarea website appear
> to be very old-style markup?
> 
> I'm have no real experience implementing CMS (that's handled by my
> daughter, Sarah, also on thelist), but I was really impressed with the
> info presented on the XStandard site, especially on the page entitled,
> "WYSIWYGs & 'Dirty' Code" --
> http://www.xstandard.com/page.asp?p=58E6C3F7-E5DF-414F-8AA5-4C8BD2BEFE2A
> They really seem to have a commitment to quality output.
> 
> On the other hand, on the site promoting HTMLarea --
> http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/ -- I find that it
> currently cannot output XHTML and there doesn't seem to be any reference
> to standards. And, of course, warning flags go up when I see <FONT> tags
> in their samples, as in this screenshot:
> http://www.interactivetools.com/common/htmlarea/htmlsourcescreenshot.gif
> 
> --
> Clive R Sweeney
> Designshift | Durham NC
> 
> 

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