WYSIWYG in FireFox

Michael · August 2008

If you have older versions of FF (pre-FF3) and are on Windows (sorry Mac people -- 10% of the market share gets 10% of the software engineering effort), there are plugins you can install that allow ActiveX and VBScript-based applications to run. Apparently, there are changes in the core codebase of FF3 that broke the ability for this plug-in to function, so as yet, this functionality doesn't exist for FF3. There's a good bet it won't, but that's just my opinion.

Still, for you FF officionados (like me), there is some hope. There are a couple extensions that work pretty well to facilitate using IE for Convio (for example) while still being safe and smart around the rest of the internet and NOT using Internet Virus Installer...... er... Explorer. I use one called IE Tab:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

Basically, it embeds the IE rendering engine into FireFox and lets you configure what sites you want to use in IE. I've been using it in my GA -> Convio migration pretty successfully so far.

So. Everyone. Go switch to FireFox today, and then use this extension until Convio's WYSIWYG editor supports standards-based XHTML rather than early 90's non-compliant stuff. (ahem.)

(Er, if you REALLY like the IE look and feel, still, switch to FireFox and use the Vista-aero theme -- looks just like IE7)

Anyway, just thought I'd throw this out there. Take it or leave it.

brucew · April 2009

"(sorry Mac people -- 10% of the market share gets 10% of the software engineering effort)"

That is disgusting and offensive. Most of the webservers in the world and very large population of desktops/laptops elsewhere than in the U.S. are run off of Linux but you don't support their browsers either. It's a really stupid argument to not support them. If you look at their code closely you'll see that most of them are all built on the same platform. There are very few. Safari is built on Webkit, Firefox on Gecko, etc.

Guess you'll still pander to Microsoft and lose that many customers as Windows will lose market share over the next year.

Adrian Cotter · April 2009

brucew :
"(sorry Mac people -- 10% of the market share gets 10% of the software engineering effort)"

That is disgusting and offensive. Most of the webservers in the world and very large population of desktops/laptops elsewhere than in the U.S. are run off of Linux but you don't support their browsers either. It's a really stupid argument to not support them. If you look at their code closely you'll see that most of them are all built on the same platform. There are very few. Safari is built on Webkit, Firefox on Gecko, etc.

Guess you'll still pander to Microsoft and lose that many customers as Windows will lose market share over the next year.

Bruce,

I think you had a hasty reading of Michael's post, and I think you owe him an apology.

He was talking about other people's software (not necessarily his own work philosophy) and the fact that there are Firefox plugins that only work on Windows, and frankly stating something reasonable: because a lot less people use macs (and linux), there's a lot less time out there in the world devoted to writing commercial software for them.

I believe Convio is working on Firefox support for their admin tool. Not sure when that is to happen.

mfriel · July 2009

Hi Folks,

I am happy to report that the Summer 2009 release includes an upgrade to the WYSIWYG, which will provide support for Firefox 3 users. You can learn more about the WYSIWYG by reviewing the links from this page- https://secure2.convio.net/customer/site/SPageServer.

Thank you,

Myra Friel

Senior Product Manager

Convio

WYSIWYG in FireFox

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