Comments on: Get yourself a great WYSIWYG

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:48:00 +0000

Wow, this is 6 years old and I can remember you talking about this on the podcast. Those were the times…! Just wondering if you still recommend this as a solution or whether something more new and dazzling has arrived? A client of mine wants to paste from Word into the editor and of course that creates problems.

By: Ian Anderson Gray

Ian Anderson Gray — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:48:00 +0000

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:02:45 +0000

BD – any answers from anywhere else on the wordpress question?
Anyone got any idea how to get xstandard working in wordpress?

By: BD

BD — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:21:12 +0000

I just found references to xstandard and a link to this website from google. I read the xstandard website and I am still confused on how you install and use this product. Its not a stand-alone editor, correct? So if I wanted to use xstandard in my blog software (wordpress) how would I go about installing it? I assume it would replace the current editor that comes with wordpress? Any help appreciated. Also, love the design of the boagworld site. Can't wait to check it out.

By: CB

CB — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:14:55 +0000

There is still no Mac version of XStandard... as of July 9, 2006. Sad.

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:33:19 +0000

To be honest I couldnt tell you. I have only ever installed it on a windows box.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:30:00 +0000

Sounds exactly what i'm looking for, is it easily installed on a linux box? i had heard it was windows only on the server side?

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:05:36 +0000

For those of you interested in the mac version of xstandard I am pleased to say that an alpha is now available and can be downloaded at: http://xstandard.com/misc/dev/2005-12-22/XStandard.dmg. This has all of the features of the lite version. A full pro version should be available within the next 3 months.

By: Darrel

Darrel — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:40:05 +0000

Just listened to your podcast for the first time (the xmas special) and decided to start from the beginning!
Love the show!
Anyways, just wanted to add a plug to Xstandard. We’ve been building an in-house CMS for our organization and I must have looked at a dozen WYSIWYG editors and the ONLY one that produced clean markup was Xstandard.
The main reason that Xstandard is better then many of the rest is that it isn’t depending on the browsers’ built in javascript text controls. Must text area replacement tools depend entirely on javascript, which produces significantly different output depending on whether or not the editor is loaded into IE or FF.
I agree that the only main drawback is the pricing. It is convoluted and a bit pricey. However, they do offer xstandard lite, which has all the WYSIWYG features. You just miss out on the nice file and image upload/linking tools.
FYI, it sounds like the OSX client is well underway so the product looks to be getting even better.

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:28:42 +0000

Oh yes! As I said in the article, unlike most WYSIWYG this does not use the default ActiveX component most WYSIWYG are built on. This beauty works in IE/Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape.