The HTML WYSIWYG market is becoming full of competing products. You could spend
hours searching the Internet for competing products or you can just use the
list below. If you think another product is better than ours we would like to
know why. Also, if you find a product that is not listed then
let us know and we can add it to the list.
Where possible we have provided 'deep links' so you can go straight to the demo
rather than through their front page. The products are listed alphabetically.
Please keep a list of the HTML Rich Text Area's features
in mind while reviewing these products.
| Product |
Features |
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| ActiveEdit |
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They have won some Cold Fusion awards
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Optionally includes a spell checker (The HTML Rich Text Area is integrated with
the Web Browser Spell Check)
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Some documentation and
support
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Relatively few features
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No document uploading or image library
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Hitting 'Enter' creates a <p> tag which appears like a double space.
(this drives users nuts)
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You are forced to enter your email address to evaluate the product.
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They have a concept of open and closed source. To make modifications you need
the open source version which is prohibitively expensive. The HTML Rich Text
Area is open source (except the evaluation version which has obfuscated source
code)
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| DevEdit |
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A mature and fully featured product at a great price.
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| Editlet |
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Great looking web site.
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Standard feature set
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Relatively expensive
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Few features for the programmer
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| Edit
Live |
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Good user interface
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Some good features for the programmer
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Standard feature set
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Relatively expensive
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Its an ActiveX control that presents a 'do you trust content from...' window.
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Initially takes a long time to install
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| Edit Works Professional |
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Good user interface
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Reasonably priced
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Some customization features
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Nice web site
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Allows pictures to be uploaded to your web site. (HTML Rich Text Area features
this too. It became available in version 1.3)
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No evaluation version
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Not totally server-side technology independent
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They have another product called 'Site Works Pro' that competes with the tcpIQ
Site Editor. Site Works Pro is an additional $100. The tcpIQ Site Editor is
free with the HTML Rich Text Area.
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| htmlArea |
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You can download an evaluation version
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Its free
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You can write your own extensions to the software (you can do that with ours
too)
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Limited features
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Support available through a forum
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No image library or image uploading
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No spell checker integration
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Hitting 'Enter' creates a <p> tag which appears like a double space (this
drives users nuts)
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| htmlArea |
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You can download an evaluation version
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It's free (based on BSD license). [ This product appears to be identical to the
one above. The one above is truly free. This one requires that you keep the
original copyright notice to www.interactivetools.com. The help is the same
too. This may be totally legitimate as it may be written by the same person but
there is nothing to suggest this. ]
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You can write your own extensions to the software (you can do that with ours
too)
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Limited features
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Support available through a forum
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No image library or image uploading
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No spell checker integration
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Hitting 'Enter' creates a <p> tag which appears like a double space (this
drives users nuts)
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| HTMLEditor |
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This application has been included for completeness. It is more a proof of
concept project rather than a commercial application.
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| RichTextBox |
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Highly customizable
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Well documented
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Well priced
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Great set of features
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Includes an image library and uploader
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Server technology dependent. Requires .NET
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| TextArea rich |
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Standard set of features
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Cheap
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Little documentation
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Little support for customization
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No spell checker support
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| Web
Editor |
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Some good documentation
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Competitively priced
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Has a concept of code snippets
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Requires ASP.NET
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It is so slow
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Limited features
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| WYSIWYG Pro |
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Competitively priced
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Some good documentation
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Great feature set (about the same number of features as ours)
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Requires PHP
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No evaluation version
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