Throughout the past several years, since WebNV and its cms have been in development, I've gone through numerous WYSIWYG editors to help with content creation. While a lot of them were nice, I always seemed to be annoyed by some feature, or lack of feature, or bug that seemed to plauge virtually every editor. But with TinyMCE, I finally found a perfect editor.

Prior to TinyMCE, my cms used another popular editor called FCKEditor. Now before anyone gets the wrong idea, let me just state that FCKEditor is a great web based editor. I proudly used it in my administration panel, and comments form for the past year or two. It did its job and made creating/editing articles/comments a breeze.

But FCKEditor seemed a bit too 'heavy' for me. By 'heavy' I mean it wasn't very lightweight. Yes, it has tons, and tons of features, but it can be slow to load or process. It also had some weird issues when it came time to convert the editor's content into compliant HTML/XHTML code. Especially with Safari and Opera.

A lot of these issues have been fixed with recent releases, but I've already moved on to TinyMCE, and I don't plan on going back.

Some of the great things I love about TinyMCE include:

• Fast loading times - especially when using Gzip compression
• Cleaner and easier to use configurations for each instance of TinyMCE
• The ability to pull in your site's CSS file and have the editor window mimic your site's styles
• An optional toggle button to enable/disable the editor
• The ability to click, drag, and resize the editor's window
• Cleaner and more compliant HTML/XHTML code conversions

There are a bunch more features that I like, but these are just a few that immediately come to mind.

Anyways, I believe TinyMCE to be one of the best, if not the best, web based WYSIWYG editor out there right now (for open source). FCKEditor is also a great editor, but in my opinion, a few steps behind TinyMCE. The comments section of this site is still using a standard textarea, but I might just update it to use TinyMCE in the future.