I've been using KTML and Matt's home-written code for a while now with SEOmoz, but I'm thinking of making the switch to FCKEditor. The name reminds me of the London fashion firm - French Connection United Kingdom (FCUK), but it's actually a good-looking system.
You can try it for free on this page and download the installation software here.
I mentioned the firefox thing because I know Rand was having trouble with using KTML and firefox so he switched back to internet explorer. KTML would essential "eat" his blog entries (the textarea would go blank immediately after the page rendered).
What would be cool is *BUZZWORD ALERT* if they'd make an AJAX powered inline wysiwig with some kind of API. Many popular blogging tools are already implementing ajax (wordpress has it in the works, I believe), but since SEOmoz's blogging system is written from scratch an API to this wysiwig interface would be preferable.
I thaught I drop a note on this one... FCKEditor is great... I like it more then HTMLArea3, which is dead and Xina... but one thing that pisses me off most is that the back button does not work in Firefox... Other one I've used is TinyMCE. Tiny loads faster and is much smoother although the Return key has some issues... it does not understand single line returns compared to double line... if you do single Shift+Return then do double just return will turn all singles into double well atleast for me... frankly I'm thinking about getting a commercial one... like ActiveEdit or WSI..PRO..
I am on the Firefox side of the fence, except when publishing news with my news-system. :)
My HTMLArea-version is much easier/quicker to use regarding internal links, linking to documents and inserting images since it's combined with a database.
Maybe now you can switch back to the firefox side of the fence. :)
In a similar vein, I recently discovered a free text editor called notepad++. It supports syntax highlighting, auto-completion, search/replace, and a bunch of other features you'd expect from a text editor.
https://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
My only complaint is that it doesn't have a built-in FTP client for editing remote files. Because of this, I'm sticking with ultraedit for now. Ultraedit isn't free, however, so notepad++ is a good choice if you don't want to spend money and need an alternate to windows notepad (bleck).
I also use this editor on a number of projects, and its great. Very easy to install and it is relatively bug free.
I also use FCKEditor on some pages, but I'm also using the wysisyg-editor former known as HTMLArea 2.03, even if it produces sloppy code and only work's in IE.
The reason is that I a long time ago coded some special functions into that editor (links and images inserting/editing). I have of course added some code which transforms the sloppy code into valid XHTML.
Hi,
I've been using FCKEditor on a number of sites I create for about a year now. It's great, especially when used with a Gecko based browser.
Mike