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The RTE interface was developed by Microsoft and ported to other browsers by their respective vendors, much like the xmlhttprequest function that is core of AJAX. | The RTE interface was developed by Microsoft and ported to other browsers by their respective vendors, much like the xmlhttprequest function that is core of AJAX. | ||
The content of the edited document is then sent by some way to the server, usually by an HTTP POST command, | The content of the edited document is then sent by some way to the server, usually by an HTTP POST command, servers then store the content and after display it. | ||
The problem is that vendors more or less follow specifications standards with some not respecting execCommands which control how the editor works. This makes coding an | The problem is that vendors more or less follow specifications standards with some not respecting execCommands which control how the editor works. This makes coding an RTE a very complicated issue if one intends to support multiple browsers with lots of hacked in code to support/work-around browser quirks. | ||
Every | Every RTE has a lot of code, which can be either client, server-sided or both, to process the input, clean it up and adapt the data to the servers requirements. | ||
== The AniDB case == | == The AniDB case == | ||