@Branthog said:
I can't offer much comment on modern options for a WYSIWYG web-based embedded editor. However, in my experience developing a massive site with more than 100k users (in which the least complicated part was writing a forum-engine from scratch) for over a decade, they are always more trouble than they are worth. Text is a fine method of communication and, for the most part, very simple text enhancements are more than enough. If you design your software so that it accepts and properly displays <i>, <b>, <u>, <hr>, and <pre> (or some custom variant like it), along with <ul><li> for lists, then you should have all you need to allow users to make appealing presentations for long amounts of content.
The biggest waste of my time was probably fucking around with all the shitty WYSIWYG forum editors that just wound up fucking up spacing and paragraphs and everything. A few simple pieces of interpreted markup was ultimately the way to go -- and then you don't have to worry about shit breaking when whoever makes the WYSIWYG updates it. :)
Obviously, choose whatever you prefer, but these are my experienced thoughts on it. Even the GB iteration of it has its problems. Maybe there's something out there I'm unaware of that has completely addressed the shittiness of this over-complex "solution" to a usually-not-needing-a-solution-problem. :)
Thanks for your reply Branthog, I appreciate :-). I just got a reply from stating it was written entirely in-house by the team, so my question is more or less solved.
In my current application I'm using TinyMCE which works OK-ish, but still lacks a little smoothness to it.
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