What are the project goals for openWYSIWYG?
The project goals for openWYSIWYG are designed to make it easy for developers who contribute to the editor to know where it’s going. This also lets people know what’s important to us and what we believe makes a good editor. 100% JavaScript openWYSIWYG must always be coded entirely in JavaScript and DHTML. This is so developers can use it in their applications regardless of the programming language they choose to build their web applications, be it Perl, PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion, or any other language. That being said, add-ons or plug-ins (e.g. image/media uploading utility) can be coded in a server side language (Perl, PHP, ASP, etc). Fast Loading and Unbloated openWYSIWYG must always be fast loading. Regardless of what feature is added, it cannot slow down the loading of the editor itself. There are far too many free WYSIWYG editors out there that take an unbelievable amount of time to load. End users (the very people who will use your web applications) don’t like this! Also, the editor
