+1 for A)

Thanks,
Marius

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> Related to the other vote about disabling the xwiki/1.0 syntax [1], I'd
> like to retire the old WYSIWYG editor. Although there aren't any obvious
> benefits, on the contrary it, removes an important feature, the
> advantages for doing this are:
>
> - fewer bugs (there are known bugs that we've decided not to fix since
> we agreed not to maintain it anymore)
> - less code (the .vm templates that support the editor are really crappy
> and I'd be very happy to get rid of them completely)
> - strongly encourages (developer) users to migrate to the new syntax
> - less non-valid, non-accessible code (standards compliance)
> - fewer places where XSS holes can hide (security)
>
> Personally I'd like to remove it completely, but there's also the option
> of putting it in a -legacy- module, still enabled in the final releases.
> This makes two options:
>
> A) Move the editor in a xwiki-contrib retired module
> B) Move the editor in xwiki-platform-legacy-web and leave it enabled
>
> My +1 goes for A.
>
> [1] http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/6damxrncgohtk4oc
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