Make it like DW

While we are doing our best to provide the HTML output as good as possible, there are still limitations in the technology we use for building our editor, mainly the browser. The fact is that we use the browser to run our code, and some key things, like rendering and the DOM are managed by the browser itself.

Just to exemplify, let's take IE and its terrible DOM. If you feed the browser with you beautiful XHTML code, like <p class="sample"><br /></p>, the browser will return you back <P class=sample><BR></P>. So, the best we can do is fixing this ugly thing to have the nice output we have today.

Dreamweaver is a huge desktop application instead. The application has full control of everything there, which makes it easy to provide the features you are talking about.

But, our editor is not here to compete with DW. Those are completely different applications, to be used at different scopes.

For this specific issue, here you have the code that shows the problem:

document.body.innerHTML = '<p>This is an entity: &reg;</p>';
alert( document.body.innerHTML );

The browser will pop you up ®, instead of &reg;.

If you want to keep up with the motion of web development you have to consider yourself as competing with client desktop applications like dreamweaver. It is called cloud technology. The best software is not attached to the clients computer but all is on the cloud free from downloading, all on the web. With enough research and will, it can be done.

Set an "unheard of" standard. If you don't define it who will? Your competitor will.

And look on the dark side of it all... if you don't Microsoft will

@the_hero, I understand your point. I'm just trying to not divagate, talking about the future, but instead stating the current status of things. Currently, the underlaying technology we use for editing (the browser) is still too limited. Even though, we are doing a great job (hopefully).

fredck wrote:Even though, we are doing a great job (hopefully).