[Xsltforms-support] XSLTForms and TinyMCE (v 4.5.2 doesn't work; 4.3.12 does; ...)

[C. M. Sperberg-M. <cm...@bl...>]

Short summary:  the current version of TinyMCE (4.5.2)
appears not to work with XSLTForms; the most
recent version of TinyMCE to work with XSLTForms (638)
appears to be 4.3.12 of 10 May 2016.

Details:  when I copy the demo file at [1] and point it to 
a local copy of XSLTForms version 638, into which I 
have installed TinyMCE 4.5.2 in the scripts/ subdirectory, 
I get an error message along the lines of

  TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating ‘r.getRng()’)

Both Safari 10.0 and Firefox 50.1.0 (under OS X 10.11.6)
exhibit this problem and complain about the same thing.

TinyMCE 4.0.21, which is used by [1], does work, but is
not listed among the downloadable versions of TinyMCE 
at [2].

A binary search through the versions between the two
suggests that versions up through 4.3.12 work with XSLTForms
638, and versions from 4.3.13 onward fail.  (Of course,
I haven’t tried them all, but 4.10, 4.2.7, 4.3.9, and 4.3.12
all worked; 4.5.2, 4.5.1, 4.4.0, and 4.3.13 all failed.)  The
testing done was very shallow:  in all the ‘failure’ cases,
the ‘Loading’ message never went away, and the error
console showed an error (not always the one given above);
in the ‘success’ cases, the message went away and I
was successfully able to bold and unbold some characters.

If at some point Alain tries to make XSLTForms work with
current versions of TinyMCE, perhaps knowing when things
broke will help.  (And in the meantime, for users of XSLTForms
who use TinyMCE, it may be helpful to know which versions
work and which don’t.)

In the meantime, if anyone has experience customizing
TinyMCE and using the customization in XSLTForms, and
has written up their experiences, I’d be grateful for a link
to the writeup.

-C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

[1] http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms/tinymce.xml
[2] https://www.tinymce.com/download/older-releases/

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