Bentrem

The “disappearing HTML” thing has everyone chasing their tails. Perhaps if we can put that into its own box we can then get on with problems like the one Organica brought up.

In “WYSIWYG is stripping html from posts” it’s come down to this (thanks to kmessinger):

“Sometimes when I come back in the code mode it looks like the s are gone but in the wysiwyg they are still functioning and in the actual post all is ok.
So, the key I think is not to flip back and forth between code and wysiwyg or if you do, save (publish) in between.”

So …

With respect: “turn it off” isn’t a fix.

I notice the main WYSIWYG thread (aka “Wish List”) was “turned off” 11 months ago.

Excuse me, but when I go to blogger.com *Gack Ptui* I get Visual and Code. When I go to LJ (Are we gonna have to pledge allegiance to Putin?) I get a totally awesome WYSIWYG and a righteous source editor. Heck, I get a usable source editor when I add comments at ITtoolbox. But for some reason I don’t get to use an honest source editor in WP.

To tell the truth I’d be happy to hear that this is a new problem. I was massively gob-smacked with the notion that folk have been putting up with this behaviour for years.

So … I repeat: “turn it off” might be a sort of work-around, but it isn’t a fix, because the “Source” editor imposes its own set of rules.

FWIW: I’m doing a survey of other editors (Xinha? I’ve never liked TinyMCE; I’m really angry at it right now; as I see more of the alternatives I like it even less. What’s this I hear about it truncating long posts? *shudder*) When I have something like a short list I’ll make a page at codex wiki.

–bentrem

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