Update on some new site features coming in the near future

Posted By: Duncan Mackenzie | May 8th @ 11:28 AM | 34,656 Views | 14 Comments
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 Smiley 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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#May 8th @ 12:21 PM
Zeus
Zeus
Why is the caption missing??
Why the move from Telerik, a Microsoft owned company ... ?
#May 8th @ 2:17 PM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
Because the current editor is a disaster?

Looks good. Yay emoticon dropdown!
#May 8th @ 4:49 PM
Duncanma
Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...

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.

#May 9th @ 9:45 AM
vesuvius
vesuvius
Das Glasperlenspiel
It's always a toss up between freetextbox and tinymce. I have used it in Umbraco and it is lovely little editor. I would also recomend these icons for the editor as they are simply gorgeous.
 
Please don't leave us using Office 2003 icons for the next however many years.
#May 10th @ 2:10 AM
TommyCarlier
TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

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, …)

#May 10th @ 5:44 AM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

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!"

#May 11th @ 2:45 AM
Duncanma
Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...
I'll pass the icon feedback along, I'm pretty sure we are just using the defaults right now but we can certainly look at changing to one of those options.
#May 11th @ 9:56 AM
TheWerewolf
TheWerewolf
Why not use Silverlight/ASP.Net for this?
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