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#1 Posted : Friday, November 20, 2009 2:05:18 PM
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What do you think of WYSIWYG(What you see is what you get)editors for use in a web product? The editor in zed E-Commerce is called Free Text Box, and while it may not be ideal for the web saavy developer, it is nice for the unenlightened to create static content that needs no Javascript, or client side scripting.

Thoughts?
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eduvanzyl
#2 Posted : Sunday, July 25, 2010 2:40:24 PM
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The FreeTextBox editor has reasonable functionality, especially considering it is free.
I do have a few issues with it though:
1) It uses old type tags for styling instead of inline css (i.e. <FONT> vs STYLE="")
2) Related to point 1 it uses font sizes of 1, 2 etc. which does not line up nicely with CSS type font sizes i.e. 12px
3) I have not yet been able to add to the list of styles that are available by default in the admin section (i.e. npheader, npbody, nplabel). It would be handy if there was an easy way to add to this list of style to make styling easier for people with relatively little html/css knowledge.
4) Sometimes it makes some strange changes to the html when you manually change the html (i.e. removing the '/' from closing tags)

But it is better than not having an editor.

Regards

Edu
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wisprouter
#3 Posted : Monday, August 09, 2010 7:31:55 PM
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As said it's better then nothing. I tried to fix it up so items remarks and/or notes would have the editor but I failed in doing this. Tried to emulate how it was setup for the catalog categories but either it would just throw an error or I got nothing because of the classes used on the pages where so different. Didn't try very hard just tested it out real quick. To be able to write notes and remarks with a html editor even fairly simple one is tons better then nothing at all.
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mfoss@clarionsafety.com
#4 Posted : Tuesday, August 10, 2010 2:18:11 PM
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You might want to check out Microsoft's ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit. It contains an HTMLEditor control (http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/Samples/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditor.aspx) that provides some very nice functionality with options that can be set server-side.
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