XStandard - Replacement for Built-in Editor

[bkonia]

There has been much discussion on these forums regarding UR's very limited built-in editing capability. Kinook has taken the position that there are no Visual C++ RTF components available that can work with UR. While I find this hard to believe, let's assume that Kinook is correct. Another user has suggested that an HTML editing component would be just as good as RTF for most purposes and I agree that a WYSIWYG HTML editor would be great. It would allow for all the fancy editing that users want to do within UR and HTML is actually more standard than RTF anyway, so it appears that there is no downside to this.

I would like to propose that Kinook include the XStandard - http://www.xstandard.com - component within UR as an optional alternative to the existing RTF editor. XStandard is the most popular and most standards-compliant XHTML WYSIWYG editing component on the market. Notice, I said XHTML, not HTML. Having XHTML editing capability built-in to UR would be hugely beneficial as it would allow people to create XHTML-compliant web pages in UR, in addition to using it for simple document editing purposes.

As you can see from the following web page, XStandard is definitely available as a Visual C++ component:

http://www.xstandard.com/en/document...tegration/vc6/

While it's possible that Kinook might be able to get away with using the free version (XStandard Lite) the licensing fees for the Pro version are quite reasonable and the Pro version adds several important features including spell checking, embedded images, etc... When licensed in bulk, the price drops down to $1.60/user. You can review the license fee chart at the following URL:

http://www.xstandard.com/en/purchase/xstandard/

I'm quite sure that if Kinook did a mailing to its users and offered to integrate this component for $10 extra, they would get at least 100 users who would be willing to pay for it. Since the license fee at the 100 user level is $5.99/user, this would obviously be a win/win for everyone involved. How about it, Kinook???