Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 27, 2015 @06:20AM from the now-how-much-would-you-pay? dept.

johanneswilm writes: Open source web-based editors such as CKEditor and TinyMCE have been available for more than a decade, and some closed source collaborative editors such as Google Docs have been available since 2007. Creating open source, collaborative, rich-text, web-based editors has proven difficult due to lack of standardization of the lower-level browser features. Now Marijn Haverbeke, the developer behind the popular CodeMirror has started such an editor, called Prosemirror, financed through a crowd-funding campaign. Meanwhile the W3C has installed a task force to rapidly standardize and fix the features needed in browsers to easily create richtext and semantic editors.

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Re:Holding the code hostage? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-08-27 08:12 · Score: 2, Informative

And that is exactly what happened here. The software is mostly done (https://github.com/prosemirror/prosemirror), the author has a great track record of releasing and maintaining solid software, and there are demos on the project page (http://prosemirror.net).