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I use Mac OS X, and when I first came to Mambo, I had trouble getting WYSIWYG editor to work. Using the regular editing in Mambo wasn't fun, including as I found technique for including images via mosimage code clumsy. After digging around for info, I learned htmlarea3 worked on Mac - with Firefox as browser. Tried this, and very happy with it; using it now - though it's renamed TMEdit - after upgrade to 4.5.2 and trying a few other editors.
htmlarea3 (for Mambo) evolved since I started using it. Became a component, inititally free for 4.5.0 - and I switched to this. Not too different to the regular editor, that I recall, but one cool feature is that it can use css stylesheet from template you're using - so editing screen really comes close to helping you see what you'll get. As well as working on Mac (Firefox; not Safari, or Explorer), htmlarea3 made it easy to change text to, say, Bold, Italic and so on - much as if using Dreamweaver (or Word etc). Thanks to an image manager, could add an image by choosing from a folder (I had problems using image manager for uploads; used ftp for this). Then, could resize image, position on page - and see results on editing screen. Cool; just what the doctor ordered. For Firefox, though: worth noting that latest versions have security feature which prevents directly pasting text into the editing windows. One workaroud I have - can still also use Firefox 0.8; otherwise, can get html code, and this pastes into html windows just fine. (There's a "clean up Word code" feature, but it's still better to paste pretty clean, simple code; I sometimes use Dreamweaver to simplify the html.)
TMEdit After upgrading this site to Mambo 4.5.2, I had quick go with the bundled TinyMCE editor, but even enabling the Advanced options (via Mambot) I wasn't keen. So, checked for htmlarea3 for Mambo 4.5.2. I downloaded TMEdit from thinkmambo, installed as I had much earlier done with editor for 4.5.0 (uploading files to editor folder), and didn't see it appear in editor choices in Configuration. Hmm, maybe it ditn't work with 4.5.2. I emailed thinkmambo saying as much, and was told all thinkmambo products work fine in 4.5.2. Then - Duh! - realised that should install as Mambot, as for 4.5.2. Did this, and presto! - working fine. TMEdit includes link manager, too. Using this, can even add link to a content item. But I've found the link is the raw Mambo URL, and as I'm using search engine friendly URLs (via Xaneon) I don't use this, to avoid duplicate URLs; instead, if needed, cut n paste actual URL. One quirk: sometimes, I find I can't edit in the Main Text window. Best fix for this is perhaps to toggle to and from html mode. There's professional editor, related to TMEdit: XHTMLSuite. I also read of another editor for Mambo, Spaw. Downloaded and tried - after all, it's free. But didn't work for me; maybe for Windows - I haven't checked. Also tried TinyMCE, which comes with Mambo 4.5.2. Good, but not so nifty for images (needing to give URLs for images, rather than select from a folder as with TMEdit). And with a very long article, it pretty much froze on trying to save; Firefox complained that a script was making Mozilla run slowly.
Spell-checker One non-Mambo software item that could be useful here: Spellbound is an open source spell-checker extension for Firefox and Mozilla suite, which is neat if you're typing in browser windows, as with Mambo editing.
If you have comments, questions, tips, please email me, or post in the Mambo forum here.
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