[development] Status update: WYSIWYG support in Drupal core

[Raja Sekharan]

On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 11:55 -0400, andrew morton wrote:

> One of the things that I found insanely frustrating with pasting from
> Word was that depending on which browser you pasted it into you'd get
> an entirely different DOM tree as a result. IE6 would end up with
> something really broken while FF3 would actually handle it pretty
> well. It added another agonizing level of complexity to the testing
> process.
> 
> andrew

The reason for this is that the <div contentEditable="true"> that is
used to provide the WYSIWYG editing is implemented by the browser
rendering engine and not javascript. 

Raj