Just thought someone would like to know ...
WYSIWYG News: HtmlArea Discontinued!
This monday (02/28/05) I went to the htmlarea.com forums to ask a question on a mod I was working on, and to my suprise, the forums were closed with the following message up:
The forums are temporarily closed while we update our website. htmlarea.com will be re-launching soon with a directory of wysiwyg editors from all over the web. Please try back in a few days.
Opensource projects are always tentative and may close at any time, but I was shocked the forums were down. They have a good community actively developing mods and such. So I shot interactivetools.com an email:
Interactive Tools - When will htmlarea forums be up again? I'm working on a slight mod for it and need to post some questions for help on the forum. Let me know. Thanks. - Adam
And they wrote me back with this to say:
Hi Adam,
Thanks for your email! 🙂
While htmlArea has always been an open source script, we've decided to
discontinue it so the forums are going to remain closed.
The good news is we'll be relaunching htmlarea.com in the near future, and
this time as a directory of WYSIWYG editors. So instead of being able to
choose from just htmlArea, you'll have an entire directory of WYSIWYG
editors to choose from.
If you want you can join the interactivetools.com newsletter and we can let
you know when htmlarea.com has been relaunched as a WYSIWYG directory, or
feel free to visit htmlarea.com occasionally and see the changes as they
unfold.
In the mean time, if you have any other questions please feel free to let me
know! 🙂
Best Regards,
Cliff Stefanuk - Product Specialist
interactivetools.com, inc.
Wow. Not only are the forums down but their going to remain closed. And add to that, htmlarea is discontinued! Ouch. If anyone had the itch to start a spike development of htmlarea and a community for modding. Now is the time. Well, I wrote them back:
Cliff,
Discontinue HtmlArea! Ouch. Give us some warning.
How and when do you plan to implement the new forums/site? Will it be days, weeks, months? Will you have a forum on there for htmlarea? What is your plan? You guys had a pretty good community going there. Put some ad words up and down the side and I'm sure you could at least pay for hosting the forums.
I certainly have benefitted from htmlarea and although others have said there are more advanced editors out there, I have yet to find any wysisyg editor with as good an image manager or file manager as those available as mods for htmlarea3. It was good to have a place to have a community available to contribute to and ask questions of.
Please give me a summary of what's going on. Thanks.
Adam
Man, I'm a bit bummed out. The image and file manager mods for htmlarea are so awesome. Anyone got any clue where we can start a htmlarea and htmlarea mod development community?
