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Hi,
I guess you could say this is a small report regarding WYSIWYG editing
in Safari. A few months ago, we started a donation raid to buy a Mac
Mini, thanks to our many users of TinyMCE
(http://tinymce.moxiecode.com), we got enough to buy a Mac Mini for our
office. TinyMCE is a Free Open-Source WYSIWYG editor, released under
LGPL by Moxiecode Systems.
We managed to get TinyMCE to run on Safari but it still has some bugs
and problems mostly due to limitations of the implementation of the
designMode functionality.
The browser we used for testing was: Safari 2.0 (412) on a Mac Mini
running Mac OS X 10.4.
We managed to work around most of these issues, however most of the
hacks are quite ugly and if the spec was fully implemented, they would
not have been neccesary.
Here is a list of problems we had during the development of the Safari
version of TinyMCE:
- Document selection gets lost when focusing other elements outside the
editable document such as popups. This differs from all other browsers
and makes it harder to for example make a insert link dialog since the
selection gets lost in the background.
- When having links inside a editable area it's possible to click on the
links (this opens the link). This is very annoying since it makes it
harder to select a link for editing.
- The lack of basic execCommands like InsertUnorderedList,
InsertOrderedList and Strikethrough forces some ugly workarounds. And if
you press return inside a list item inorder to generate a new item the
cursor jumps outside the whole list, the ordering of numbered lists gets
screwed up for example: 1, 2, 2, 3.
- One major problem was the handling of selection ranges. Since Safari
doesn't implement the DOM Range/Selection specification fully it was
hard to figure out how to get the selected HTML and nodes.
- Inserting custom HTML at the cursor position/selection was somewhat
tricky, an InsertHTML like the built in InsertText execCommand would be
highly useful.
Any comments on these issues would be greatly appreciated. Other
developers success with this would be interesting to hear.
(please excuse us using email@hidden email, its our specalized
split filter)
Regards,
Joakim Lindkvist & Johan "Spocke" Sörlin
TinyMCE Developers
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com
Moxiecode Systems
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