[Radiant] WYMeditor filter works inconsistently

[Bill Barnard]

I'm curious whether anyone has been successful with the WYMeditor
extension. I read the January thread regarding how to get drag & drop
working with page_attachments, and thought I would give it a try.

I installed the extension from the svn trunk (see
http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Thirdparty_Extensions and
http://www.gorilla-webdesign.be/artikel/48-WYM+on+Radiant )

on my test machine, my laptop running Fedora Core 4, radiant Rev 631,
lighttpd 1.4.11, extensions back_door 0.4.2 (tag), copy_move 1.9.1
(trunk), shards 0.3 (trunk), language_redirect 0.2.1 (trunk).

I did not make any of the page_attachments mods to permit d&d with
images.

I found that I could edit pages in WYMeditor, which does look cool by
the way, but that my results were inconsistent at best. Many times I
would save my page only to find that my edits were not saved. Sometimes
my edits were saved. I tried several different browsers to see if was
something wrong with my 'normal' Firefox 1.5 on Fedora; I also tried
Firefox 2.something on both Mac OS X & Windows XP. I also used those
same browsers on the WYMeditor demo ( http://demo.wymeditor.org/ )
without success.

One idea that occurs to me is that in the wymeditor external in the
extension I might need to freeze its reference to something other than
the trunk on wymeditor, but I've not anything to investigate it.

I'm somewhat at a loss. I think it would be a very cool thing to give to
my current client, but it's too frustrating to use in its current state.

Perhaps I've overlooked something... Thank you for any advice.

Bill