[Mediawiki-l] TinyMCE

[Daniel Friesen]

Be it a webism or not, HTML folds whitespace, so 'implementing' anything 
to do with double spaces has nothing to do with MediaWiki. The software 
does not render anything, any double space you enter is outputted 
verbose to the browser, the browser is what does the rendering and 
folding of that whitespace.

However you may not want to pick out TinyMCE as the WYSIWYG editor to 
use. Not for it being feature lacking, but at the current point in time 
it appears accepted that the FCKeditor MediaWiki implementation has done 
the best job of acting as a WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki. TinyMCE 
appears to have other whitespace related bugs, and does not appear to 
have been developed as actively as the FCKeditor for MediaWiki has.
Though, that said, even the /top/ pick for MediaWiki WYSIWYG editors 
still isn't bug less, short use of even that editor can lead to strange 
things inside of the WikiText.

~Daniel Friesen(Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) of:
-The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com)
--It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com)
--The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org)
--Games-G.P.S. (http://ggps.org)
-And Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
--Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com)
--Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)

John van V. wrote:
> I considered attempting to install TinyMCE because my use for Mediawiki
> right now is to develop technical documents, and also social science
> arguments about <see sig>
>
> What troubles me about the Mediawiki editor is not the small feature set,
> but the lack of double spaces between sentences.  This "webism" forces me to
> use M$ Word in the library, which scans for this writing error.
>
> I read that there had been problems, so I went to the Moxiecode owned
> Mediawiki, and the Moxie coders have not themselves implemented it there,
> so....
>
> ~~John
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