TinyMCE configuration removes DIVs unnecessarily

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source:branches/2.3/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php@5700#25 forces TinyMCE to try and replace <DIV>s with <P>s. This seems completely unnecessary and breaks any use of microformats in blog posts. Even more annoyingly it is different for blogs hosted on wordpress.com, where this configuration is not present.

@@ -23,5 +23,5 @@
 
  // Set up init variables
- $valid_elements = 'p/-div[*],-strong/-b[*],-em/-i[*],-font[*],-ul[*],-ol[*],-li[*],*[*]';
+ $valid_elements = '-div[*],-strong/-b[*],-em/-i[*],-font[*],-ul[*],-ol[*],-li[*],*[*]';
  $valid_elements = apply_filters('mce_valid_elements', $valid_elements);

Damn - I meant source:branches/2.3/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php@5700#25

I think possibly i should give up at this point!
​http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/2.3/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php#L25

Closing as invalid for now. Please test trunk (2.5), I believe this issue is resolved there.

I see that it's fixed in trunk, but would hope that the fix would be back ported to the 2.3.x branches? It's a bug there too, and lots of people aren't going to update to 2.5 straight away.

Backporting this to the 2.3.x branch would mean an upgrade to TinyMCE3, which is far too invasive for a maintenance update and will therefore not make it into any possible 2.3.x maintenance releases.

Reclosing as invalid because of that.