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Brady J. Frey said 7:38PM on 1-05-2007
From what I gather, the issue is really in Safari's court - the hooks to do wysiwyg via javascript editors are not all there or buggy at best (there have been large complaints with javascript support in safari nevertheless). If you need to force your apps to use wysiwyg http://editor.hardcoreinternet.co.uk/ offers full support. TinyMCE, what's in Wordpress, works somewhat decent with WebKit Nightlies, FCK is trying but holding for Safari to get it together http://www.fckeditor.net/safari
It's a shame too, I am building a few apps for Safari usage only, and it's CSS3 properites let me do some great designs, but it's javascript weaknesses are an annoyance.
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Bryce said 7:45PM on 1-05-2007
Nice, I've been waiting for this!
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Frank B. said 9:30PM on 1-05-2007
I would strongly recommend avoiding using the rich text/WYSIWYG editing tools: I used to use them until I realized they were responsible for the many serious formatting problems I had. In particular, the bold and italics tags are often malformed. Life is much better without the rich text editor.
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Callum Alden said 7:43AM on 1-06-2007
Well, that is good news - it has been possible for a good year or so, via a little hack, to make safari play along with these buttons, still- can't they stick some CSS on them- looks a little odd a row of curvy bubbles.
Has anyone noticed (or have I just re-enabled it!) that OS 10.4 now has systemwide spelling check with a little red underline as-you-type facility?
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Mark Jaquith said 12:27PM on 1-06-2007
One of the perks of having an OS X user with WordPress commit access now (that'd be me).
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Mark Harviston said 6:32PM on 1-06-2007
Cocoa apps have always had the ability to "hook into" Apple's built in spell checking ability.
I don't know if Apple purposefully left spell-checking out for a while though.
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Brady J. Frey said 12:19PM on 1-09-2007
"can't they stick some CSS on them- looks a little odd a row of curvy bubbles"
You can't override those html elements with CSS in the safari browser... atleast, not in anything but the nightlies and the coming soon builds.
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Callum Alden said 9:14AM on 1-13-2007
thanks for the info Brady, i'm looking into a hack for this right now, i'll post any results.
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