The team behind the Guardian’s digital content management system talk about how and why they built and open sourced Scribe.
As part of the Guardian’s new digital content management system, Composer, we needed a rich text editor to enable our journalists to write rich content. More than that, we needed a rich text editor we could extend, to provide our journalists with an elegant interface for producing and formatting rich content. Unhappy with existing solutions, we built and open sourced Scribe, our own rich text editor. But how and why did we build it?