Audience
Developers and anyone in need of a HTML5 editor to edit content in modern browsers
About Mercury Editor
Mercury is a full featured HTML5 editor. It was built from the ground up to help your team get the most out of content editing in modern browsers. Mercury comes bundled as a Rails Engine, so just include it in your Gemfile. Or download the current bundled package if you're not using Rails. We don't inject javascript or css into your production pages so you're free to use whatever frameworks you want without having to worry about conflicts. Easily add or remove toolbar items or create entirely new tools. Any toolbar item can be tied to an action using behaviors and the command pattern. Full HTML, Simple, Markdown, Snippet and Image regions are supported by default, but you can just extend the base regions to build your own types. Built on top of the HTML5 contentEditable features, it natively supports the all the fancy new HTML5 elements, syntax, and JavaScript APIs.
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Mercury Editor
Founded: 2011
United States
jejacks0n.github.io/mercury/
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