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I have just completed an article of about 3000 words on implementing a Wysiswyg editor for my Geeklog site. The editor is based on the htmlArea engine. Quoting from the intro:

This article describes the hack to the editing functions for this geeklog site.  There are a number of basic changes we made.  Two of the more noticeable are

• If you use MSIE 5.5 or higher on Windows, you have a Wysiwyg editor
• The layout of the editing page has changed to, what was for us is, a more functional format and flow

In addition to these major visible changes, there are some other ones which we will discuss below. 

See the full text at Web Applications Development

-- Dr Magu

htmlarea is greatly improved if you also get the phpuploadmanager addon to it. This allows you to click the 'insert picture' button and get a dialog box that allows you to specify local or remote files.