Tuesday, December 23, 2008

TWiki TinyMCE and Opera

Today I installed TWiki 4.2.4, which includes TinyMCE editor.
But in Opera 9.61 I only get the traditional editor - no TinyMCE in sight.
Tried accessing from Firefox and it worked fine.

So, I downloaded TinyMCE from http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/index.php, put it on my internal website and ran the examples from Opera - no problems - TinyMCE works fine in Opera.

Looked at the source code for the edit pages in Opera and Firefox and the TinyMCE content is only there in Firefox. TWiki must be deciding I can't run TinyMCE for some reason and providing different content to Opera than it provides to Firefox.

It turns out that in January 2008, Opera was added to a short list of browsers that are not compatible with the TinyCME plugin of TWiki.See http://develop.twiki.org/~twiki4/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/Item5116 for details. It seems TinyMCE in Opera corrupts data.

The TWiki TinyMCEPlugin is using version 2.1.2, but the current release is 3.2.1.1. This may have something to do with the problems with Opera. There are indications on the TinyMCEPlugin development page that upgrading is not trivial.

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