During our recent efforts at work to integrate a different WYSIWYG into our email marketing application we had decided to try out TinyMCE. Boy was that a bad idea, we ran into problem after problem with the open source WYSIWYG and the way it takes it upon itself to format the source and add all kinds of funky attributes to perfectly good tags. I was finding sizcache and sizset attributes in my table tags and it took it upon itself to wrap my source in it’s own container div, also using the fullpage plugin  it could not even determine that they’re were html and head tags and kept duplicating  those and sticking them in arbitrary locations. Basically it messed everyones code up and boy they were pissed!! This editor lacks clear and consise documentation and needs a lot of work. For an editor that is as mature as TinyMCE is, it’s sad that it is in  the state it currently is in, I had to downgrade to get it semi working. Although I do sympithize with the developer as it is ever increasingly more difficult to write javascript to confirm to the ever changing DOM (or everyones different interpretation of it), especially with Microsoft’s one sided approach to making IE the worst browser in the world when it comes to following standards. Every browser has its own twerk and writing code for each one must be a nightmare, especially the complexity with writing a  WYSIWYG as it seems no one can get it right. Hopefully someday this will change maybe when the browser makers can get on the same page but I don’t foresee that happening anytime soon, especially with Microsoft’s ability to throw a wrench in the works!