Aloha-Editor

It's licensed under AGPLv3. I prefer MIT as well, but surely you don't need to buy a licence to use this? https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/blob/dev/LICENSE...

Probably the major difference is that Aloha Editor supports direct inline editing. You can edit dom elements directly without wraping the content in an iframe which leads to a different rendering (inline tags, css, etc). Further we did implement the HTML5 spec and a utility API (https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/blob/dev/src/lib...) the helps implementers of plugins to write plugins that modify the dom in a HTML5 complaint way. There are some other new concepts available like "scopes" or "blocks". The floating for instance menu reacts on scopes like continoustext, link, image, table, tablerow, etc. You only the the interaction items that are availabe for that scope. That reduces the number of interaction item that are exposed to the user and still provide a huge amount of interaction items, where only the relevant ones are avail

I am sorry if you feel that there is few reaction on the forum. We try to improve that. If you have a look at https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/commits/dev/ you will notice that there is a lot of action going on and we are hard working on providing a better user experience with the beloved contenteditable. The probably most painful part of HTML5 spec and browser implementations. The HTML5 spec unfortunately is very unclear in most cases ("the behavior is UA-dependent" - http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#user-editing-acti...). Eg. "Break block" is defined with 2 sentences, where we have more than 80 test cases and are far from complete https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/blob/dev/src/tes... Though the next release (in a few weeks) should bring a better experience. PS: mahalo() should work even with the very old

There is a bunch of other contentEditable implementations you may want to look at, many of them under a permissive open source license: https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/issues/121 BTW, the Aloha devs are willing to give exceptions to AGPL at least to open source projects.

The relevant GitHub repositories are: https://github.com/bergie/midgardmvc_ui_create - the reference UI implementation for Midgard Create https://github.com/bergie/VIE - JavaScript library used for making RDFa-annotated content editable https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor - usable HTML5 contentEditable implementation https://github.com/midgardproject/midgardmvc_core - the PHP framework used with the UI reference implementation If you want to implement this UI, or something similar to your web system, just let me know. I'm usually on Freenode #midgard and #iks channels.