I am not a JavaScript hacker, so I have no clear idea how best to
use FCKeditor. My embryonic Haskell library just spits out
either a textarea or some JavaScript that creates an
FCKeditor instance depending on how HTTP_USER_AGENT
is set, though I can imagine someone wanting to do something fancier
[*]. The POSTed data is validated against XHTML 1.0
Strict using HaXml, which seems to work well for the most part;
for some reason FCKeditor uses the non-standard
<embed> tag for Flash content, and I can't find
a convincing reason why [**].
In the not-to-distant future I will implement the connector stuff, and Cabalise it.
[*] Apparently I still need to crank out an
<iframe> to satisfy Internet Explorer, so we can
either revert to XHTML 1.0 Transitional or generate some
non-standard XHTML just for Internet Explorer. It's a tough
call.
[**] It seems that recent versions of Internet Explorer (6 and 7),
Mozilla-based browsers (Camino, FireFox) and Safari 3
are all happy with the <object> tag. Adobe has
a "knowledge
base" article full of non-reasons to use the
<embed> tag. The great thing about web standards is
we're all empiricists now...