On 05/19/10 17:12, David Gerard wrote:
On 19 May 2010 16:08, Chad wrote:
So to answer the original question of "Why don't we have WYSIWYG when it's been around for 15 years?" It's because we need a lossless conversion between raw wikitext and wikitext output by the visual editor. Last time I checked, this was the major flaw that FCK and CK editor still haven't overcome.
It just (just!) has to not mangle the wikitext, or at least not in semantically significant ways. Only interact with what it understands and not trash the rest.
That would, of course, be the bug I just reported, where it was doing precisely that ...
This mangling is the biggest complaint I see on the OOoWiki. Users who edit a page with the FCKEditor make a change and save. Behind the scenes the FCKEditor has completely rearranged the raw wiki syntax. So a minor change turns into a 100% content change with you do a compare in the history.
I'd love to know a workaround to this... other than removing the FCKEditor.
C.