That's another CKEditor thing. I can turn it on or off and via plugins change the name of some of the nodes to be more descriptive, like the youtube plugin does. Can't seem to do it for emoticons though! :C

you could effectively 'turn it off' with some CSS, and maybe just show it for 'advanced users' or something. At the least, adding some kind of label to say what it is/does would probably reduce confusion.

Not so much weird line breaks as some bastardised paragraphing.

That's in Safari 6 on OS X.

Also, having attempted to use contentEditable for my Soda thing, I appreciate the difficulty in making it work right. It's why I gave up and used a plain textarea instead, and will do so when I eventually get around to rewriting Forj.

Firefox 14 15 16.01 on Windows 8.

It's a OSX / Safari thing the word-wrapping or lack there of.

That's your first mistake, trying to write your own. Not even contentEditable works reliably across all browsers. CKEditor has lots of browser sniffing to turn things on and off and provide work-arounds. I certainly wouldn't want to write it.

It does it in Chrome too, so possibly it's a WebKit thing.

It's amazing the faffing about you have to do just to get something as seemingly simple as the same plain text out of different browsers, what with all their various interpretations of how the Enter key should be handled :|

I'm still missing the standard text/HTML input option.

I hate single enter for a new paragraph! I always end up with double-spacing everywhere due to just hitting Enter twice without looking. :(

There is no standard text / HTML option any more. There is a button to view the HTML source of the editor but you still post entirely in HTML.

+1

h8ting it :(

Is it just the enter key thing you're not liking?

Ummm, what else is there? I'm used to entering twice (nj) for new paragraph. This does it differently. And it would make sense getting used to, except every other forum that I frequent still does it the old way.

There's also other stuff about the editor that I'm not loving. Just now I used a spoiler tag and it covers the text even in the editor, so you can't edit it.

Not to mention the retarded spell-check (but we've covered that already).

Is there a good reason for using this crap over TinyMCE?

And this might be a Safari problem (only just noticed) but when you select text to add a link, click the link icon and paste, the link gets added to the text box because the focus doesn't change to the dialogue. You have to select the dialogue entry again. Eeef!

I'll have a look at the paragraphs thing.

I dumped TinyMCE for this crap because this is better and easier to develop for (IMO of course) and more functional.

Not sure about the hyperlink thing.

Is there a way to just... turn it off for individual users? I'd rather just default to HTML.

Nope. :Y

Why would you want to turn it off?

This is a testy test in IE8. OK, when you bring up the link box in IE8 nothing gets focus, so you have to select the input dialogue, but you cannot select the text area (so links cannot be placed erroneously). I will double-check in Safari (if I remember) to see how/if the problem can be reproduced.