New posting editor

 Well, it's different. I like some, don't like change, until I'm used to it. This seems to work faster. FYI I am using Firefox. Before, it would take about 10-20 seconds before I could type a post.

 Be glad to see the emoticons return, too. Keep up the good work, David. 

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Dave,

 It seems to be a bit faster,  and a bit touchier when typing, overall.  Will be happy to see the emoticons back;  I guess we will all adapt to this.

Brian 

Gee, when I saw this topic heading I thought you meant a new Editor like the new associate Editors, and thought "boy is he going to take a ribbing with a nickname like TinyMCE..."

I like how the font size now shows the corresponding point size. Miss the emoticons, but I remember how to do most of them with simple text! ;) 

Hi Dave,

It's not bad,  but I miss the button for adding links. I know how to code HTML, so I've used that feature, but the other way was a bit easier.

I'm also a bit annoyed that it automatically sets the line spacing and puts a non-breaking space at the beginning of each paragraph.

Regards,

Lufbery wrote:

It's not bad,  but I miss the button for adding links. I know how to code HTML, so I've used that feature, but the other way was a bit easier.

Are you not seeing the button for adding links?  

Like the previous one, you also have to highlight the text you want to use as a link.  When you don't have any text highlighted, you should still see the button but it will appear "faded".

Lufbery wrote:

I'm also a bit annoyed that it automatically sets the line spacing and puts a non-breaking space at the beginning of each paragraph.

It's actually using <p> paragraph tags for spacing.  You can use SHIFT+Enter to start a new line w/o the paragraph.

Hi Dave,

Nope, I didn't see the button for adding links. It was faded. *blush*

Thanks also for telling me about the shift-enter to add soft returns. I should have guessed that would work.

However, I do appreciate the HTML option. That means I can (maybe) do things like:

Adding images should work pretty well too

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Regards,

That's interesting. My table shows up just fine in the preview, with a border, but not in the actual post.

I'm using Firefox 1.5.something in Windows XP. 

Regards,

Lufbery wrote:

That's interesting. My table shows up just fine in the preview, with a border, but not in the actual post.

Now you didn't think just because we have an HTML button that you could use whatever HTML you wanted to. 

In the forum config, there's a list of designated html elements and attributes that users are allowed to include within their posts.  The border attribute wasn't in that list.  It is now.

Seems to work OK, but bring back the Emoticons.

Regards, Rick

Bgrigg wrote:

Gee, when I saw this topic heading I thought you meant a new Editor like the new associate Editors, and thought "boy is he going to take a ribbing with a nickname like TinyMCE..."

On weekends he works as a DJ at local clubs.

"Ladies and gentleman, put your hands together for the styrene stylings of TinyMCE!!!!!!" ;-)

Go Tiny! Go Tiny! Go Tiny!

The editor works great David- thanks! I think I used it before in developing a website for a client- it looks like what we used.....

The client loved it. We showed them the editing interface and they said "Oh- it's Word!" LOL

Dave... If I try to use the link buttopn it say a pop-up blocling id stoppingthe funtionality and to trun off the blocker for this site.  How in heck do I do that?

All well and good, but ...

Are we going to get the IMAGE button back? If not, why not? 

mfsob wrote:

All well and good, but ... Are we going to get the IMAGE button back? If not, why not?

Oh yeah let me be the first to DITTO (close your eyes and imagine the smiley here) that one.

Shellback wrote:

This new format is for the birds ! What was wrong with the old system? Its getting more irritating . Can you pull the plug on this thing and go back to the old . I have a dial up service and know its slower than before the switch . AARRRGGHH!!!

 So irritating in fact, that Smellquack has started talking in pirate.

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m60a3 wrote:

Shellback wrote: This new format is for the birds ! What was wrong with the old system? Its getting more irritating . Can you pull the plug on this thing and go back to the old . I have a dial up service and know its slower than before the switch . AARRRGGHH!!!  So irritating in fact, that Smellquack has started talking in pirate.                                                                                     ;)   -60

Well hows things Patton ?

 That's General Patton, Admiral Shellback.

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m60a3 wrote:

That's General Patton, Admiral Shellback.                                                      -60

Well well , ole sweet Patton is amongst us !

lizardqing wrote:

Well it told me that I can't copy and paste with Firefox. Why's that? Other than that so far so good.

Use 'CTRL-C' and 'CTRL-P' on the keyboard to copy and paste.

I dislike this new editor, but have managed to get used to it... sorta...

Fade to Black... 

Anybody notice (Dave, Amanda, Matt???) that the sticky notes have lost their grip?  They are being pushed down progressively further with new posts. At the moment the 1^st sticky noted is at the bottom of page 1 and the next is on page 3.  Someone needs to call 3M!

 I am OK with the new one, but I noticed that you also have the "link" insertion function disabled.

Why?

Tom T

T_Terrific wrote:

I am OK with the new one, but I noticed that you also have the "link" insertion function disabled. Why? Tom T

Try selecting the text you want to link first- that will activate it.

 Still has some problems .

What I have noticed throughtout this transition to the "new and improved" website is the thunderous silence from FSM on certain issues, such as the lack of an Image button, to wit:

• E-mails are ignored.
• PMs are ignored.
• Letters are ignored.

Is it just me, or is this part of a larger trend of declining attention to detail?  

mfsob wrote:

What I have noticed throughtout this transition to the "new and improved" website is the thunderous silence from FSM on certain issues, such as the lack of an Image button, to wit: E-mails are ignored. PMs are ignored. Letters are ignored. Is it just me, or is this part of a larger trend of declining attention to detail?

There have been several threads from David Voss explaining those things.  He's in the process of fixing the code for the smileys so that they work with the new Internet Explorer 7.  That was also part of the reason for the editor change.... so that it would work with IE7.

For the hyper link function.... type in your web link, hightlight it, the hyperlink button activates... then click on it.