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Aloha Editor

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Developer(s)
  
Gentics Software GmbH

Written in
  
JavaScript

Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
Cross-platform

Initial release
  
15 July 2010; 6 years ago (2010-07-15)

Stable release
  
0.23.9 / 29 May 2013; 3 years ago (2013-05-29)

Aloha Editor is an open source WYSIWYG editor that can be used in webpages. Aloha Editor aims to be easy to use and fast in editing, and allows advanced inline editing. The first version was released 15 July 2010.

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Description

Aloha Editor is built to facilitate editing of content within the same layout that is shown to readers. In this respect, it is different from most other web-based WYSIWYG editors. Aloha features a floating contextual toolbar that hovers over content that the user is actively editing. Aloha Editor tries to implement its functionality respecting the HTML5 Specification Draft.

API

Aloha Editor includes a plugin API for extensions.

Browser compatibility

Aloha editor does not require browser specific editing. It is compatible across multiple web browsers and Operating Systems including Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari.

Implementations

The following content management systems work with Aloha Editor either natively or through modules:

  • AlohaX for MODx
  • Calipso module
  • Drupal in contributed module project Aloha Drupal 7
  • Front-end Editor WordPress plugin, starting from version 2.1
  • Gentics in its latest version of their Enterprise WCMS Gentics Content.Node 5
  • Midgard in IKS Hackathon in Helsinki: the IKS project makes use of the Aloha Editor API and implemented a semantic annotation plugin
  • TYPO3 in Sprint 3 of TYPO3 Phoenix
  • References

    Aloha Editor Wikipedia