Ticket #1509: 1509.patch

_whatsnew.html

@@ -108 +108 @@
                         behind smiley icons and special characters in their corresponding dialogs.</li>
                 <li>[<a target="_blank" href="http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/1693">#1693</a>] Custom error messages are now 
                         properly displayed in the file browser.</li>
+                <li>[<a target="_blank" href="http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/1509">#1509</a>] InsertHtml() in IE will no
+                        longer turn the preceding normal whitespace into &amp;nbsp;.</li>
         </ul>
         <p>
                 <a href="_whatsnew_history.html">See previous versions history</a>

editor/_source/internals/fck_ie.js

@@ -163 +163 @@
 
         // Using the following trick, any comment in the beginning of the HTML will
         // be preserved.
-        html = '<span id="__fakeFCKRemove__">&nbsp;</span>' + html ;
+        html = '<span id="__fakeFCKRemove__" style="display:none;">fakeFCKRemove</span>' + html ;
 
         // Insert the HTML.
         oSel.createRange().pasteHTML( html ) ;