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I’m not a big fan of WordPress. I think most CMSs today suck because they don’t provide a decent WYSIWYG editor. Yes, god really is in the details. With the option to clean up your code enabled (cause I don’t like non-compliant HTML either, ya know), this FCYK editor or whatever its name is a walking disaster. It rearranges text, or inserts dividers, or completely messes up my code in short, a big conundrum.

Drupal was decent, but it too had its little quirks. (My version two website is based on Drupal.) Drupal didn’t have a decent theme, for one. All the acceptable themes end up slamming text into each other or create other sorts of hazardous creations. Then, all the fuss about the better thinking behind the concepts underlying it unveiled its fart essence when you really had to work with categories. There were two incompatible models that you had to reconcile. Crap. The plugin supposed to bridge the gap was both crappy and buggy.

The character I currently have my eyes set on is DokuWiki, which handles code and lists out of the box, in addition to producing clean HTML. It doesn’t fuck up the text I write. It takes it for granted. It gives me code highlighting and I can quickly put up a good looking article, without having to switch to fucking code mode to rearrange tags or delete extraneous newlines. Fucking WordPress editor!

One thing I wasn’t able to grasp yet is how most, if not all CMSs don’t provide a TRUE WYSIWYG editor. One in which you see your fucking page as it will look and as you type in it. Just a tiny piece of JavaScript (which is gonna be a disaster to paste here, in WordPress) does the trick of providing a lot of out-of-the-box editing functionality WITHIN YOUR PAGE. The JavaScript enables CONTENTEDITABLE and has got me really miffed about why I’m not falling back to my version one website, which I can control and, with a couple hours of coding, edit in a true WYSIWYG manner. FUCK! So frustrating!

And this idiot WordPress doesn’t let me create CODE in Visual mode. What the FUCK is wrong with these people?

I uploaded such a JavaScript-enabled page to my V1 website, just to give you a feel of how easy it is to make it work. Just look at the source. I disabled the ENTER key, because different browsers treat that key differently. Many insert garbage markup into the page, so for a production implementation of a CONTENTEDITABLE-based feature, you’ll want to capture the ENTER key. Just take a look and feel the difference. True WYSIWYG.

WordPress could create an editor sensitive to the rendering details of each theme, an editor that can create WYSIWYG content in the context of your theme. The editor would communicate with the theme to infer what constructs are used for the different types of objects in the page. (Or, it would upload the theme to WordPress themes and see what kind of HTML it produces, inferring the code vocabulary that the theme has produced. Or, it could create a sample page locally and feed it through the theme to produce the same information. Etc., etc.)

There’s so much that just hasn’t been done properly. Rassum brassum!