On 19 May 2010 16:08, Chad <[email protected]> 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 ...


- d.

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