Is jWYSIWYG editor too buggy for production use?

Question

After reading the comments on this site:

http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/jwysiwyg-jquery-inline-content-editor-plugin/

There is a bit of consensus that jWYSIWYG editor is too buggy (especially in the last few recent comments). Has anyone had experience with it in a large production site?

I haven't run a huge sample of markup through it yet, but so far it has seemed to do the job fine.

Answer 1

I don't know the project but I conclude: Don't use it (at least at the moment)

• the google code page jwysiwyg contains no documentation
• the download also doesn't contain any
• there are 91 open issues in the tracker (which for such a small project isn't a good indicator)
• last commit (r33) was on the 21. September 2009
• the second-last commit (r32) was on 21. April 2009
• so no frequent updates to codebase either
• no new download file (current is jwysiwyg-0.5.zip which dates from January 2009), although he made 3 commits after publishing v0.5 of which:
  • 2 contain fixes for issues
  • 1 restructures directory layout and adds a minimal example to the codebase

Answer 2

I went ahead and tried it, but ended up switching to a toned down CKeditor instead.

Problems I had were

• Bold not working in Safari
• No easy view source mode
• I had to hack the core code to make tooltips appear (mainly just string manipulation)

Answer 3

are u tried to find some other place where this editor can be located? for example: http://github.com/akzhan/jwysiwyg/downloads ? There u can find v. 0.9 released few days ago