Update on some new site features coming in the near future
- Posted: May 08, 2009 at 11:28 AM
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Hey folks, Duncan from the dev team here. Just wanted to give you a heads up that we'll be rolling out some new features along with a list of bug fixes in the next few days.
The main new feature is a completely new editor. We've moved to TinyMCE for the commenting and creating new threads, and along with that move we've fixed a few of the issues that have been brought up around the editing experience. For one, we'll have a emoticon drop down finally
and the insert image and insert URL
dialogs should be much faster and simpler to use.
At the same time as this update, we'll be rolling out fixes to some bugs that you've reported, including seeing the 'subject' field in some cases when commenting on videos, the fact that the 'all forums' feed is not updating and others.
The main new feature is a completely new editor. We've moved to TinyMCE for the commenting and creating new threads, and along with that move we've fixed a few of the issues that have been brought up around the editing experience. For one, we'll have a emoticon drop down finally
and the insert image and insert URL
dialogs should be much faster and simpler to use.At the same time as this update, we'll be rolling out fixes to some bugs that you've reported, including seeing the 'subject' field in some cases when commenting on videos, the fact that the 'all forums' feed is not updating and others.
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Looks good. Yay emoticon dropdown!
Telerik is owned by Microsoft? I had no idea (and, not to be rude, but I still don't... do you have a reference for that?).
As to why, the TinyMCE editor is easier for us to customize and is lighter weight on the page. Telerik makes good stuff and we are still using their editor in our admin pages, and their script combining/compression on all of our pages, but we think the TinyMCE editor will provide a better experience for the users.
Microsoft doesn't own Telerik.
Please don't leave us using Office 2003 icons for the next however many years.
The problem with the “WYSIWYG Sapphire” icons is that they look pretty good at large sizes, but at 16x16 they look kind of blurry. I don't mind the Office 2003 icons; they are very functional and not ugly at all. There are more modern icon sets available that do look good at 16x16, but I don't think Sapphire is one of those.
At work, we use a combination of FamFamFam Silk Icons, PI Diagona Pack and Tango Desktop Project.
P.S.: now that I look at the “PI Diagona Pack”-page, I see they have a new icon set called “Fugue Icons”, which also looks pretty good (and has a lot of different icons; all kinds of arrows, a lot of variation, …)
I found Tiny's plugin model a terrible pain to work with, though. Especially when the only documentation you have is their unhelpful wiki, which basically has "look at the sample plugin" as an explanation. Buy some plugins from them, like the file and image browser, and you're off even worse. Their support to my question regarding IIS aliases and file paths was "use firebug to debug it!"
My apologies if I'm not understanding you correctly...
C
The flexibility is superb, but most important the latest releases is very stable regarding to document editing.
But I see Channel 9 is using line breaks when pressing the enter key (force_linebreaks option in TinyMCE).
Regarding the TinyMCE team it is very experimental, and in my experience not stable when editing complex documents. I recomend that you test this option out before releasing. I left it a long time ago.
Annoying bug there, but it has been fixed now, thanks for pointing it out!
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