Bringing WYSIWYG Content Editing To Mozilla

whythewig writes "Over the past month two open-source wysiwyg xml editors have appeared - Xopus from Q42 and the Bitflux editor. Each of these projects tries to bring true wysiwyg editing to Mozilla. From reading various mailing lists it seems that the Wyona project has been instrumental in bringing these two projects out as open source. It also appears that both of these projects will be presented next week at the open source content management conference in Berkeley, California."

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[Thalinor]

first of all, they do have the potential to be cross-browser (ie 6 and mozilla). second, thanks to the built-in schema validation for xopus your users cannot even apply "wrong" text styles etc, because you can only apply styles that are pre-defined in the stylesheets.

finally, xopus is arguably more "wysiwyg" than most editors who are nothing more than textareas with some formatting buttons. for instance, the NYT of switzerland, neue zürcher zeitung (nzz) uses xopus to enter articles. journalists see how their articles flow on the page while they are entering it. quite powerful.

hope this helps,

-gregor