Am I crazy? (How) should I create a jQuery content editor?

I completely agree with your suggestion of an editor - markup and iframes are so 2001 :) The world is heading semantics so we need modern tools to edit content. (see my slides http://www.slideshare.net/draftkraft/aloha-editor-contenteditable-useable) I started the Aloha Editor (http://aloha-editor.org) more or less with the same intension as yours above behind. The utopia :-) in our case became more or less reality and we already have some software using it:

These are known to use Aloha Editor as main editor

• Typo3 (in next major version V5 http://latest.phoenix.demo.typo3.org/. Cool guys, huge opensource cms in EU. Around 500.000 users)

• Gentics Content.Node V5 (First know big production system using Aloha Editor. Customer with 16.000 users. http://gentics.com/Portal.Node/blog-detail/gentics/postings/company/Telekom-Austria-Group---communication-with-16-000-em.en.html)

These systems are known to have plugins

• Drupal (opensource cms https://github.com/evo42/aloha-drupal)

• Midgard (opensource cms http://www.midgard-project.org/discussion/developer-forum/aloha_editor-and_hrungnir_user_interface/)

• some other projects I have heard but I don’t know

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Ok, wow! These guys are doing exactly what I was thinking of:

http://aloha-editor.com/

I don't like their toolbar much but they're actual functionality looks great! I'll be keeping an eye on their progress :)