# cheeaun/mooeditable

[DISCONTINUED] A simple web-based WYSIWYG editor, written in MooTools.

Repository: https://github.com/cheeaun/mooeditable
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mooeditable
Homepage: http://cheeaun.github.io/mooeditable/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2017-11-06T15:56:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6420, "days_push": 3222, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1034, forks 113 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:18.846955+00:00)

## What it is
MooEditable is a lightweight web-based WYSIWYG rich text editor built on the MooTools JavaScript framework. It turns a textarea element into a visual HTML editor with customizable buttons and a clean interface.

## Use cases
- add a wysiwyg editor to a textarea
- let users write rich text html in the browser
- embed a lightweight rich text editor in a mootools app
- customize toolbar buttons of a web editor
- replace plain textarea with visual formatting editor

## When to choose
- your codebase already uses MooTools
- you need a very lightweight wysiwyg editor for desktop browsers
- you want a simple, customizable editor with an MIT license

## When to avoid
- starting a new project (the project is discontinued and on hiatus)
- you need support for modern browsers or mobile devices
- you need an actively maintained editor with security fixes
- your stack uses React, Vue, or other modern frameworks

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, editor
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors
- platform: browser
- tags: wysiwyg, mootools, rich-text-editor, discontinued, javascript

## Member repositories
- cheeaun/mooeditable (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:18.846955+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:06:32.068677+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cheeaun/mooeditable (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:18.846955+00:00, sha 7077f04eaee3)
  - homepage: http://cheeaun.github.io/mooeditable/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:05:54.378891+00:00, sha 27aed5b2a1aa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.