WYSIWYG Plugin (again)

[ccdw (Christopher W)]

I’m putting my investigation into the above on hold until I get a better understanding of the new Plugin API and topic virtual DOM architecture

In the meantime, please don’t let that stop you continuing with your discussions should you wish to…

A new versioned API for client side plugins

Later today I am going to be merging our new post rendering engine into master. Swapping out Ember/HTMLBars for a virtual-dom based renderer provides us with a huge performance increase, but it also has the side effect of being incompatible with how plugins were previously made. While doing this work, it occurred to me that we made a fairly big mistake in the past by not providing a mechanism for versioning the public APIs used by client side code. We used to encourage people to just dump in w…