Through the web editor

Definition

• A Through the web (TTW) editor - also called Web-based editor must work in a web browser window and replaces either a textarea or adds it's own editable fragment. In order to make it work your webserver needs to include some JavaScript code in pages served.

• A simple TTW editor just assists the user to insert tags. A WYSIWYG TTW editor let's the user edit in more or less WYSIWYG mode. Usually, the user also can see and edit the produced code.

• Usually, a TTW produces a subset of HTML code, but there also exist editors that produce other syntax, e.g. XML applications or Wiki markup.

Software

Here is a sampler of TTW editors (see the links below or the JavaScript links page for more):

• TinYMCE Small, XHTML, crossplatform and Opensource (popular with open source portals).
• Bitflux XML capable
• Wikiwyg Wiki capable
• Xinha Complex HTML/XHTML

Most portalware today includes TTW editors (sometimes more than one from which an administrator can choose). On the other hand, there are still a lot of portals that use not very functional ones ...

Links

• TTW Through the Web" WYSIWYG Web Editors - The List. Very good list of TTW editors at Genii Software.