XStandard for OSX!
One of the must frustrating parts of our home-grown CMS we’ve been building is looking for a text-area replacement to allow folks to edit basic HTML via their web browser. There are as many inline HTML editors as there are CMSs. And, just like CMSs, 99% of them appear to be crap.
I went through a long list, and finally went with XStandard. It is by far the best option out there if you are concerned about creating HTML that is valid, accessible, and semantically rich. It does suffer from one major drawback, though: it’s an activeX control. They decided to go this route (rightfully so, IMHO) to get around the inconsistencies between IE’s and Moz’s built in abilities to edit text in a textarea. Most (all?) of the javascript based systems depend on the these built in abilities, which leaves you with inconsistent markup depending on which browser you are using.
So, it was a bummer, but we’re IE-based here anyways, so we went with it. Fortunately, this seems ot be a very progressive company, and within a few months, they had a working Firefox version ready as well. And now, the big news: An OSX version is on its way…hopefully ready for beta by Summer.
