Daniel-
Yep. The whole point of wiki is to make mark-up fast
and easy. Having a
half-broken edit tool bar
It's not the edit toolbar that is broken, it's the browser. Netscape 7 is
based on an old Mozilla codebase. The problem is that older versions of
Mozilla than the 1.3 codebase do not support the selectionStart/
selectionEnd properties which are necessary to get and change a text
selection.
Unfortunately there's no way for us to test whether the browser supports
selectionStart/selectionEnd, as these are properties of the <textarea>
element, which doesn't even exist at the time we do the checking. So right
now the behavior is like this:
1) For Netscape and IE, change the selection when the user clicks a
button.
2) For all other browsers, show a sample text in an info box, which can be
copy and pasted.
Unfortunately 1) leads to problems in old versions of Netscape. That is an
unsatisfactory situation and I am *not* suggesting to turn on the toolbar
with this problem still in place.
Now there are two ways to deal with the Netscape compatibility problems:
1) Only support selection change in Internet Explorer. This is very easy
to do, but will discriminate against users of Mozilla >=1.3 (including
myself), inasmuch as they don't get the maximum functionality they could
get.
2) Support selection change in Internet Explorer and *new* versions of
Netscape Navigator.
I'm inclined to go with option 2), but some further testing might be
needed until it's ironed out in all browsers. Until then, the toolbar will
*not* be turned on by default.
Regards,
Erik