Requirements:

• Embedding resources
• Embed.ly
• Easy to use
• Maintained
• Support for current content or way of converting
• WYSIWYG?
• Optional Markdown support

Possible Editors:

• WYSIWYG:
  • http://ckeditor.com/
  • http://www.tinymce.com/
  • http://jhollingworth.github.com/bootstrap-wysihtml5/
• Markup:
  • http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/
  • http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/
  • https://github.com/OscarGodson/EpicEditor
  • http://hallojs.org/

http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/

• Very basic (makro level)
• No live preview, but preview available
• Easy to implement

http://jhollingworth.github.com/bootstrap-wysihtml5/

• Tables only by editing HTML
• Use embedded iframe for editing
• Saves content in HTML5
• Easy to implement

http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/

• Uses hardcoded ID - will need extra effort to work with django forms
• Need to specify extra elements for text areas
• Edit icons are on a white background
• Live preview rocks
• Preview doesn't support Markdown tables extension
• Not that easy to implement

Wsyiwyg vs Markup:

• W+
  •  easy for users
• W-
  • not always WYG
  • can result in large complex content
  • emty tags remains that is not visible
• M+
  • short and concise
  • easier to maintain coherent look and feel for content
  • easier to parse content
  • content should be smaller than HTML
• M-
  • learning curve

Considerations:

• Can choose to allow HTML in markup

Markdown vs Textile

• tables

References:

• http://warpedvisions.org/projects/markdown-cheat-sheet/
• http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/