A lot of low end CMS vendors is using a simple ActiveX component, but it is not very stable and does only work on MS platforms.
Here is a list of a lot of vendors - it is not prioritized:
| Widget | Comments |
| WYSIWYG HTML Editor | Win/IE only |
| Edit-on Pro | Commercial. Java 1.1 |
| Ekit | GPL Java2 |
| eWebEditPro |
Commercial. Windows only but IE or Netscape |
| HTMLEdit | Java, has bugs, no source, was on JavaBoutique but withdrawn |
| EditLive | Commercial.Windows only but IE or Netscape |
| WYSIWYG HTML Editor | Win/IE only (is this the same as the top one?) |
| HTML Text Editor | LGPL Javascript, Win/IE only |
| tide | LGPL Javascript, PHP? Win/IE5 only. No download yet |
| EditThisPage | Win/IE only |
| IEMethod | Win/IE and Zope only |
| HTOpenEdit |
Win/IE only, DHTML |
| HTML Text Editor Applet | GPL Java, JavaScript |
| js_edit | Win/IE only, PHP |
| XS DHTML Editor | Win/IE only, DHTML, JavaScript |
| bpEditor | Win/IE only |
| WYSIWYG HTML Editor | Commercial, Win/IE only, but only $179 per URL (i.e. www.domain.org and support.domain.org would require two licenses) |
| Online Content Editor | Win/IE only |
| ezEdit | Win/IE only |
| NetWedit | Win/IE only |
| LIME (Less is More Editor) | Commercial, HTML Editor of Q42. Runs only in Win/IE5.5 + 6. Allows multiple users profiles, image uploads, block moving and editing, css styles. Needs PHP or MS-ASP running on a server. Rest is done client side. |
| Xopus | Commercial, runs on Win/IE 5.5 + 6 and on Mozilla 1 on any platform.Works with XML, XSLT and XSD. **** Xopus 2 is in development and will be open source (Apache-like license). Release date is August 1st 2002. **** |
| IE Editor for Zope | Win/IE5 only but not Zope only |
| axWebEd | Win/IE only |
| ActivEdit | Win/IE only |
| WebEdit Pro | Commercial, Win/IE only |
| wysiwyg_web_edit | IE and Netscape (but with ActiveX plug-in from www.esker.com) |
| Web-based Content Editor | Commercial, Win/IE only |
| Phoundry Editor | Commercial, PHP & Win/IE5+ only |
| Adminimizer Pro | Commercial, Win/IE only |
| WebWord | Commercial, Win/IE only. Not clear if widget is available separately without consultancy. "We can implement the WebWord WYSIWYG content editor into any custom PHP, ASP, ColdFusion application." |
| Text Editor | Just a demo at present - requires FlashMX. |
| Bitflux Editor | Open sourced (Now 50,000 euros has been
donated and it now freely available). Mozilla 1.0 /Netscape 7.0-based and does not support IE. Written in Javascript. Usable
with XHTML & XML Documents. |
| Advanced Content Editor | Commercial, Win/IE only. tim@electricjet.com says: "An updated and MUCH improved commercial version of the Web-based Content Editor.I have found it to be one of the better implementations of the MSHTML Editor and it is CHEAP, plus you get full source code and unlimited usage." The blurb says "Requirement: Server: ASP, IIS (as the main component actually is actually a client side script, so this is required only for running the sample project & image library management)" though I doubt (and hope) that ASP and IIS are not mandatory. |
| Simple HTML-editor User Control for ASP.NET | Win/IE only. The README.TXT file says: "Requires: Internet Explorer 5.5+. Limitations: Only one editor control per page. Copyright: Open Source 2002
Author: Kim Bach Petersen · kim@kensho.dk. Version: 1 Build:2" |
| flash HTML editor | Commercial, requires Flash. Supports XML. |