Web site: ckeditor.com
Category: Office
Subcategory: Text Editors
Platform: Cross-platform
License: GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, MPL
Interface: Web-interface
Wikipedia: CKEditor
First release: 2003
CKEditor – a modern JavaScript rich-text editor with MVC architecture, custom data model, and virtual DOM, written from scratch in TypeScript with excellent support for modern bundlers.
It provides every type of WYSIWYG editing solution imaginable with extensive collaboration support. From editors similar to Google Docs and Medium to Slack or Twitter-like applications, all is possible within a single editing framework. As a market leader, it is constantly expanded and updated.
CKEditor is implemented in JavaScript and offers server-side interfaces to Active-FoxPro, ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, Java, JavaScript, Lasso, Perl, PHP and Python. It is distributed as free software under the open source licenses GPL, LGPL and MPL as well as under the commercial Closed Distribution License (CDL). CKEditor outputs XHTML 1.0. CKEditor is integrated as an editor in many content management systems or can be installed as an extension, such as WordPress, WebsiteBaker, Drupal, Joomla etc.
The project was launched in 2003 as FCKeditor by Frederico Caldeira Knabben, whose initials were included in the name. Version 1.0 was released on May 25, 2003. In English-speaking countries, the character sequence FCK inadvertently leads to associations with the word fuck. Therefore, in August 2009, with the release of version 3.0, the name was changed from FCKeditor to CKEditor.
