The third option is to have a different behavior in IE, i.e. bold the whole word at the caret location when you hit bold. Especially if all existing wysiwyg browsers do this.
The proposed solution sounds a bit hackish and complex. I don't have a better opinion for now. Thanks -Vincent On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > Hi devs, > > To explain the issue lets consider the following scenario: > > * Edit a new page with the new WYSIWYG editor. > * Type "foobar" and place the caret as in "foo|bar", where the pipe > represents the caret. > * Press the Bold button or type CRTL+B in order to start typing bold > text at the current insertion point. > * At this moment, the HTML should be "foo<strong>|</strong>bar" where > the pipe represents the caret. > > The Problem > > In Mozilla it's easy to place the caret as suggested. In IE it's > impossible (this weekend I tried all sort of things and search > desperately on Google..). What I can easily do in IE is either > "foo|<strong></strong>bar" or "foo<strong></strong>|bar". The > workaround > that I found is to use a special space symbol > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner inside the strong > tag > (before, it had an empty text node inside) and place the caret just > after this special space symbol. > > PROs: > * When the use will type the text will be bold. > > CONs: > * Although the space character is not visible you have to jump over it > while navigating with the arrow keys. > * Although we can remove these special symbols before converting to > wiki > syntax, the user will have them when copy&pasting. > > I'm in favor of using this special space symbol. WDYT? > > Thanks, > Marius. > > P.S.: I need your opinion ASAP, thanks! > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
