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Re: Safari and WYSIWYG Editing (TinyMCE)

Marko Samastur wrote:

However, saying this is a Microsoft problem isn't fair either. A lot of HTML was developed in exactly the same way, by someone implementing a feature outside of a standard that later others found useful. Even Apple did it a year ago with type="search" attribute for input tag and we'd certainly be without XMLHttpRequest, if followed only existing standards.

Right. There's a space for proprietary tools in web development, in driving innovation, but not in cross-browser use, for the very practical reason that the implementations aren't there to use. Microsoft releasing proprietary tools is not the problem here. Expecting proprietary tools to work as if they were standards is the problem.

It becomes a Microsoft problem when we realize these are proprietary tools, then go to the documentation to try to emulate them using existing standards, and find that the documentation is so poor that we can only guess what these tools do (if we can even find the documentation). That's a problem for me, anyway.

Peace,
Scott
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