Maybe I'm going out on a limb with this one, but it seems to me that rich text editors represented an important step forward in moving the World Wide Web from a broadcast-oriented, ...

The folks behind Firefox have unveiled a new project today called Bespin, an extensible, web-based text editor that lives in the cloud. At first blush, Bespin may not seem all that special—after all, ...

Software used to create and change Web pages (HTML-based documents). Low-level Web page editors are used to write HTML code directly. High-level Web authoring programs provide complete WYSIWYG design ...

If you’re looking for a quick-and-dirty way to take notes on your PC, you can’t beat using your browser. No, I’m not talking about online tools like Google Keep, Word Online, or any other text-editing ...

There are basically two kinds of people who want to write things in plain text files: those who have to deal with weird, intractable cross-platform formatting issues, and those who just like the ...

Extracting text from a Web page can be done in several ways. The method you choose should depend on the purpose you have in mind for the text. If all your business needs is to print out the text for ...

Sometime in the 1960s, hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson envisioned deep linking to specific pieces of text as a core feature of his proposed Project Xanadu system. (My first exposure to Xanadu came in the ...

Web pages aren't read-only anymore. These rich text editors let users post content of all kinds, edit content and even write collaboratively within the browser. Maybe I'm going out on a limb with this ...