As a surprise and delight to many web developers, Safari 1.3 (released a few days ago via Software Update) includes WYSIWYG / RichText editing. This feature has been long rumored to be in the upcoming Mac OSX version Tiger. Although there appears to be no documentation, Safari’s developer Dave Hyatt reports that Safari is adapting Microsoft’s contentEditable including execCommand and designMode. So far no web developer has been able to get execCommand to work but contentEditable seems to work just fine. Hopefully there will be some documentation released soon on how to build Javascript interaction so that we can bring some sort of App like interaction.
Safari DEMO:This post is an example of WYSIWYG editing. Got Safari 1.3? Go ahead and DOUBLE CLICK ME (saving not allowed of course). You can try using Command+B or Command+I to make text bold or italic. also, you can drag the image around or even drag and drop an image from the browser or even your Desktop.
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Thanks Melvita, finally got a WYSIWYG editor that works on all browsers (Safari included!) thanks to this page – even if I had to write it myself!
Link: http://www.sony-youth.com/software/eArea/
Cheers for the great article!
Yes. That is quite a nice one.
How would it be possible to make a save button?
Safari now supports some sort of rich text editing. I’m not sure how it works exactly, however, over at the All Forces blog, they have an awesome demo. I don’t even need to be editing the page, just bold or italic the on page text! How cool is tha…
Hello everybody,
I’m trying to create a WYSIWYG Editor for a website… I use an Iframe to edit a document, and on click the submit button then i’m trying to give the innerHTML of the Iframe to the value of the textarea in my form to send it..
But it isn’t working on Safari… why ? I don’t know ! Someone can help me ??
thanks… :)
Hey guys!
Check it out this HotEditor. It works pretty well on Safari 1.3.2
http://ecardmax.com/hoteditor – it’s free
Mai
I have just tried the HotEditor and it works fine with Safari! WYSIWYG makes life so much easier. Thanks a lot!