Re: Better Editor
You can find on the forums here some experience about using fck or tinymce. But as html is source of insecurity, people are not really willing to use it. So far I know there is no wiki wysiwyg editor.
The general editor has not been downgraded.. perhaps some bugs but the functionalities are the same.
What do you notice?
You have a couple of mods that exist to insert special code (see mod.tikiwiki.org). You can also customize your quicktags to have a beeter help;
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