What are the project goals for htmlArea?
When we originally started the htmlArea project we had some pretty specific goals in mind for how it would work and what issues were important to us. Those goals still lead the direction of development today and are listed below in order of priority. • Compatibility htmlArea has to always be backwards compatible with older and unsupported browsers. This ensures that even if a user with an older and unsupported browser can’t use htmlArea, they’ll always be able to, at a minimum, enter text in a plain textarea like they would have done before. htmlArea should also be compatible with as many programming languages as possible by being completely DHTML and JavaScript based. • Ease of Use htmlArea needs to be easy for developers to integrate into their applications and customize, easy for programmers to extend and modify, and easy for end users to “use”. That’s why you only have to add a single line of JavaScript for each textarea you want to convert, and why all the code is stored in a sing
