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"I'm having issues with my edits not looking right on the page." "Did you cut and paste from a Word document into the WYSIWYG editor?" "Yes." "Bingo." -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 11:22 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Wikis More often than not, the author seems to intend the poleaxing of your user experience. Cary On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Nate Vack <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> WYSIWYG editors are the bane of my existence. > > Well... it depends on what you want. If you want clean, valid HTML, > then yes -- WYSIWYG editors are unholy abominations unleashed upon the > earth. > > If you want documents to look mostly closely like the author intended, > they're not so bad. Occasionally we need to do a "paste it into > Notepad and then back" maneuver, but it's rare. > > Sometimes people do really, really strange things like pasting an > entire web page or Word document into the Wiki editor. For extra fun, > paste an entire wiki editor into the wiki editor. That's its own > meta-trip. > > But the worst case response tends to be "How the heck did you do that? > Let's revert that, shall we?" > > -n -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com