Vincent Massol wrote: > (forwarding this very good article to the xwiki dev list) > > Indeed a very good article explaining well the issues. > > From the article I conclude that this feature is: > * HTML 5 (and XHTML) > * not standardized and thus with huge varying implementations > depending on the browser > > Since I'm a newbie in this domain I'll ask some newbie questions... :) > > As a consequence of the above I don't understand why any cross-browser > WYSIWYG editor would use this feature as of now. > Wouldn't it be easier to implement everything in javascript? > Since there are javascript frameworks that isolate the user from the > browser specificities wouldn't it be easy to do that? > Are all the existing WYSIWYG editor using this designMode/ > ContentEditable feature?
One reason is because it can handle copy/paste better. > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Sep 27, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > >> Hi Vincent, >> >> I found by chance this article http://tinyurl.com/5rlwps . I's not >> too long and worth reading in order to better understand the >> difficulty of making a good cross-browser WYSIWYG editor. You're >> already familiar with some of the issues discussed there. >> >> Have a nice evening, >> Marius -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
