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Safari WYSIWYG Support

Safari

Update: Goodness! In just a few days the fundable project reached its goal, and our friend got enough for his Mac. Just a matter of time before we finally get a Safari-compatible WYSIWYG! Thanks to all in the open-source and Mac community who helped!

We're donating a shiny new Mac to the hard-working open-source programmer over at FCKeditor, in an effort to finally get a WYSIWYG tool that works on Safari. If you're a web developer, you know where we're coming from, and you can help too...

Fck_screenshotIf you're a web developer, you've no doubt worked on a CMS-related project where you needed to install some kind of browser-based WYSIWYG editor for one of your clients. It's pretty much a rite of passage for us geeks.

And you've experienced the frustration that comes with most browser-based WYSIWYGs (broken plugins, JAVA errors, browser incompatibility, etc). The best one we've come across so far is an open source solution called FCKeditor.

We like it because it works on PC and Mac, and even Mozilla Firefox. The only thing missing is Mac Safari support. Well, Apple just released a new version of Safari, finally making it possible for FCKeditor to work in that browser!

There's only one problem. The creator of FCKeditor, an independent programmer based in Poland, doesn't have a Mac to work on.

Help Us Send Frederico a Mac!

To help speed development of Safari WYSIWYG support, and to hopefully better the Mac web-developer community, we're donating enough funds for this guy to get himself a new Mac Mini.  If you help us by joining in at Fundable.org, maybe the guy can upgrade to an iBook with wi-fi  and lots of RAM...

More info here:
http://www.fckeditor.net/donate/safari/default.html

Help donate here:
https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/FCKeditor_iBook/

 

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Although not as feature rich as FCKeditor (I always hated that name) a small group of web developers have created what we believe is the most feature rich wysiwyg editor for safari to date.

For more info visit:
http://rtef.info

Timothy Bell

Posted by: Tim Bell | Aug 15, 2006 4:08:16 PM

Rtef WYSIWYG editor looks good, but it is certainly not the most feature rich editor for Safari. You may for example want to
take a look at the Asbru WYSIWYG editor (http://editor.asbrusoft.com), which has loads of features and excellent support for Safari.

Posted by: Martin Hansen | Oct 12, 2006 10:10:49 AM

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