> On 25 Aug 2016, at 18:36, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi devs,
> 
> Marius has recently introduced the honoring of text editor for xproperty 
> editing for textarea types.
> 
> This is great but it’s causing a lot of backward compatibility issues. We’ve 
> fixed several xclass to use “puretext” for code but there are plenty out 
> there still.
> 
> I’ve just found another one with XWiki.WatchListMessage.
> 
> The issue is that this is a blocker. I was trying to make a change there so I 
> was editing using the “source” mode of CKEditor. The problem is that when I 
> saved there were a lot of changes made to the content automatically, breaking 
> the code, see for example:
> https://www.evernote.com/l/AHf4KpfVtfBOK5zqcyf_up1Rty923fZOm-I
> 
> The main issue is that I’m stuck. There’s nothing I can do in my wiki 
> (without resorting to scripting, using REST, etc).
> 
> I’m proposing that we do the opposite:
> * When no editor is specified, use the wiki editor. Apps that want WYSIWYG in 
> xproperties should say so.
> 
> This is actually more logical to me because the object editor is a technical 
> editor.
> 
> In any case we need a solution that doesn’t break backward compatiblity.
> 
> Since this change of behavior (honoring the editor for xproperties in the 
> object editor) was introduced in XWiki 8.2 we need to act fast before it 
> becomes a problem for our users.

I forgot to mention that initially I was even using the GWT editor as my 
WYSIWYG editor and in that case I can’t even view the source since that doesn’t 
exist for GWT and thus those using GWT are even more stuck…

Thanks
-Vincent

> WDYT?
> 
> Thanks
> -Vincent

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