The third option is to have a different behavior in IE, i.e. bold the whole word at the caret location when you hit bold. Especially if all existing wysiwyg browsers do this. The proposed solution sounds a bit hackish and complex. I don't have a better opinion for now. Thanks -Vincent On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
Hi devs,
To explain the issue lets consider the following scenario:
* Edit a new page with the new WYSIWYG editor. * Type "foobar" and place the caret as in "foo|bar", where the pipe represents the caret. * Press the Bold button or type CRTL+B in order to start typing bold text at the current insertion point. * At this moment, the HTML should be "foo<strong>|</strong>bar" where the pipe represents the caret.
The Problem
In Mozilla it's easy to place the caret as suggested. In IE it's impossible (this weekend I tried all sort of things and search desperately on Google..). What I can easily do in IE is either "foo|<strong></strong>bar" or "foo<strong></strong>|bar". The workaround that I found is to use a special space symbol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner inside the strong tag (before, it had an empty text node inside) and place the caret just after this special space symbol.
PROs: * When the use will type the text will be bold.
CONs: * Although the space character is not visible you have to jump over it while navigating with the arrow keys. * Although we can remove these special symbols before converting to wiki syntax, the user will have them when copy&pasting.
I'm in favor of using this special space symbol. WDYT?
Thanks, Marius.
P.S.: I need your opinion ASAP, thanks! _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs