jQuery RTE Recommendations

Question

There are some decent JavaScript-based RTEs out there, but when it comes to jQuery plugins, the selection seems to be quite sparse. What are the most recommended/promising projects (either finished, or in progress) that provide a simple-to-implement RTE using jQuery?

Here's what I've found from my research so far:

• jQuery UI Rich Text Editor is a planned component of Jquery UI, but appears to still be far from becoming a part of any upcoming release.
• TinyMCE seems to have the best combination of features and ease to implement.
• markItUp! would be perfect for developers and power users, but isn't ideal for end-users unfamiliar with code

As you can see, my list is pretty short. Is there anything else out there, or soon-to-be out there that isn't listed yet?

Answer 1

I'm not sure why it's important to you that your rich text editor uses jQuery, but one more you might like to consider is CKEditor: it's pretty good and has some kind of jQuery integration component. If you're going to be developing plug-ins, be aware that while the architecture is very flexible, the developer documentation is sparse.