FCKEditor was a bit cleaner, IMO. But only marginally.
Also, there was ‘WYMeditor’, which displayed the semantic structure of text instead of a WYSIWYG rendition—so I kept meaning to try it out some time, but never got around to it in earnest. Textile and Markdown took hold before I again had a need for a complex editor, which is probably for the better.
(Now, if we convince all the ‘whitepaper’¹ authors that their incredibly complex layout of ‘a wall of text and occasional pictures’ doesn't require PDF and that I don't have a 14" portrait-oriented screen—that would be great.)
I wish we could've used Textile back then, I used it for my personal blog, but it was no go since the users were Word-people who literally made html pages with Word and tried to upload those to CMS. Oh, that brings back memories... Trying to clean up a mess that resulted from users pasting rich content from Word to our content editor and then wondering why it broke their site from certain point onwards.
Also, there was ‘WYMeditor’, which displayed the semantic structure of text instead of a WYSIWYG rendition—so I kept meaning to try it out some time, but never got around to it in earnest. Textile and Markdown took hold before I again had a need for a complex editor, which is probably for the better.
(Now, if we convince all the ‘whitepaper’¹ authors that their incredibly complex layout of ‘a wall of text and occasional pictures’ doesn't require PDF and that I don't have a 14" portrait-oriented screen—that would be great.)
(¹ as opposed to greenpaper, I guess.)