Rich Text Java Applet as Substitute for <TEXTAREA>?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday May 1, 2001 @07:20AM from the editing-HTML-without-knowing-HTML dept.

Glowbead asks: "I'm trying to find a java applet that can be used instead of a textarea for use in a Content Management System I'm working on. I basically need something that will let someone who's in charge of managing content to do spot formating (bold, italic, underline, H1, etc) without the need to know any html tags. I've found one called edit-on Pro that looks like it will do the trick from Real Objects. It's a pretty slick little applet that seems to work well under Netscape 4.x, Mozilla, and IE. The only problems are that I've tried for close to a week to get in touch with the company, with no luck, and it's not Open Source. I've also seen a few that are Windows only (dll plugin based). I'd really like to find something like this that is cross platform (as edit-on is) and free (as in speech) so that I can modify it to my needs and so that the whole system could be released at some point in the future. Does anyone know of anything good for this purpose?"

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Try doing what Yahoo! does by GreyyGuy · 2001-05-01 05:25 · Score: 4

I've looked into this a little bit for a similar project I'm working on and didn't find anything I liked. The closest I've seen to something that looked really good was the way Yahoo! does their web email system. It looks like it is all in JavaScript and CSS, but it works well in IE. I haven't used Netscape on it, but it should work.

I imagine it would not be legal to copy it verbatim (though I didn't look for any licensing info) but it shows that it can be done without an applet and could probably be reproduced.