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A checklist for your rich text editor

31-Oct-2006

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, Industry Standards

James Robertson offers a handy checklist for evaluating WYSIWYG editors, pointing out that not every requirement will pertain to every implementation. James observes that half the requirements concern cleaning up extra Word gunk. That's important, because in most installations most content finds its way into a rich text editor via copy-paste from a desktop editor. But setting clear expectations is critical here, because "cleaning up" Word formatting to make it standards-compliant almost inevitably makes the text appear differently than the original, and additional manual manipulation may be needed in the browser to re-create the desired formatting. Left to their own devices, authors will blame the CMS, when -- as James points out -- the real culprit is Word.

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