Would this be the same as rolling in the tiny_mce and wiki_editor folders from my previous install (1.1)? Also, are there any dependencies coming from the style.css that would need to be modified?
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On 1.4.1 I've been noticing some odd results from the wysiwyg. > > When editing, some folks have found that data is "lost" (it's actually > > there, but because the wysiwyg editor didn't render the text, on next > > edit+save combination the text is lost perminantly). > > > > Also, at random times: > > --bullet points are moving about (next line, previous line, etc when it's > > showing as on the right line in edit mode. > > --A textbox gets put around the text, making it harder to edit (only way > I > > can explain it, it's like in Word when you put a textbox into the > document). > > I'm still trying to lock down a repeatable case around those two. > > > > The really sick part, is that when you're in edit mode it always "kinda" > > looks right. Not quite, depending on the text, but almost. I am still > > trying to reproduce some other issues I've been informed of, which have a > > lower priority at this point. > > > > Using Firebug reveals a bunch of inserted <div>'s at each bullet point > ONLY > > under certain conditions (for example, when you select text and bullet it > > without starting from "fresh") - removing these <div> tags (again, with > > firebug) shows that they're causing the majority of bullet point issues. > > > > 1: Is this perhaps why we are losing data as well? Random tags getting > put > > in that are hidden - and then when the wysiwyg editor tries to render it > as > > wikitext, it doesn't "see" that text? > > 2: Failing all else, how do I return to v1.1 wysiwyg editor? As it > stands, > > I have a blanket refusal by users to use the wiki system until this is > > resolved - rolling back to an older released version is not really an > > option, if we can roll back the wysiwyg editor and the problems it is > > causing, I could salvage the bulk of issues. > > This is the main reason why we're trying to write a new WYSIWYG editor from > scratch and dump the > current tinyMCE-based one: lack of stability. The editor is not meant to be > heavy customized, as it > becomes very fragile. While trying to fix some bug, we're introducing lots > of other bugs we're not > aware of. We can't know what has changed and why is something failing > without many hours of debug, > and even if we manage to spot the problem and try to fix it, we'll probably > break something else. > > To revert the editor only, you can checkout the sources from > > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xwiki-platform/web/tags/xwiki-web-1.1.2/standard/src/main/webapp/ > and replace the tiny_mce and wiki_editor directories from the running wiki > with the ones from the > SVN. Be sure to make a backup first, so that you can revert if something > goes wrong. > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
