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What every CMS developer knows about rich-text editors

8-Jun-2005

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, Industry Standards

You can now know too: don't expect browser-based WYSIWYG widgets to generate valid, accessible code. Robert Nyman vents some commonly-held frustrations and points to a few interesting open-source projects, like TinyMCE. As we frequently counsel, you should test any rich-text editor before buying. Examine in particular how it handles varied MS Office-pasted content, since many layout problems originate with the initial text -- somewhere upstream.

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