(This page belongs to the article Evaluation of WYSIWYG-editors by Peter Krantz)
Below is the detailed result for the tested editors. If you find an error, please leave a comment or send an email to pete at standards-schmandards.com. The test criteria evaluate markup functionality rather than formatting features. Each editor was used to create the a sample document after which the resulting code was inspected.
Test | EditOnPro | XStandard | eWebEditPro | CuteEditor | TinyMCE | FCK-editor | JXHTML-Edit | Kupu |
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Version tested | 4.3 | 1.6.2 | 4.2.0.11 | 5.2 | 2.0.4 | 2.2 | 4.0.005 | 1.3.5 |
Headings | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (9) | Yes |
Paragraph | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (8) | Yes | Yes | No (2) | No (2) |
Link title | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
List | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Nested list | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (3) | No (3, 14) | Yes | No (3) |
Nested list (mixed type) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No (3) | No (3) | Yes | No (3) |
Table headers | Yes | Yes | Yes (15) | Yes (7) | Yes | No | No | Yes (4) |
Table caption | Yes | Yes | Yes (15) | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Table summary | Yes | Yes | Yes (15) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Language (13) | No (6) | No (6) | No | No | No (6) | No (6) | No | No |
Acronym | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No (10) | No |
Emphasis | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No (10) | No |
Strong emphasis | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No (10) | No |
Quote, inline | No | No | No | No | No | No | No (10) | No |
Quote, block | Yes (1) | No | Yes (1) | Yes (1) | Yes (1) | No | No (10) | No |
Image alt-text | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (11) | No |
IE 6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Firefox 1.5 | Yes | Yes (12) | Yes | No (7) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Safari | Yes | No (5) | No | Yes | Yes | No (5) | Yes | Yes |
Score (out of 19) | 16 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 6 |
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