cedarwaxwing says:

To use HTML the user has to actually insert code himself. I know few people outside work who know that to create a link you need to use the tag. Would it be possible to add wysiwyg functionality to the review forms?

#1 Posted 1 years ago

Jaemi says:

Yeah...while the tags are listed, and I for one am used to them, most people do tend to gravitate towards WYSIWYG since it takes out the guess-work and you don't have to worry about forgetting to close a tag somewhere.

#2 Posted 1 years ago

danchamp says:

Okay, I'm investigating the options for this and will report back soon.

#3 Posted 1 years ago

danchamp says:

We now have a WYSIWYG editor. You can turn on the option to use this in your profile. The first time you use it there will be a short delay while it loads, this will only happen once.

Blockquote support will be added very soon.

Any feedback on this is welcome.

#4 Posted 1 years ago

cedarwaxwing says:

Apostrophes, accent marks and quotation marks are turned into their ascii code equivalent when pasting text into the wysiwyg editor. I'm almost thinking about rethinking my request for the wysiwyg editor. It at least doubled the time it took me to enter my review into the form. Could it have been because I wrote it in Word and copied and pasted it into the editor? Did the word styles mess with the styles built into revish?

#5 Posted 1 years ago

danchamp says:

Yes, there are encoding issues when you paste from Word. I'm going to investigate another option for the wysiwyg editor, the one we're using currently doesn't offer enough over the plain text editor to justify its existence.

#6 Posted 1 years ago

danchamp says:

We've got a new and much improved wysiwyg editor in place now. It will behave a little funky if you use it to edit reviews that were previously saved in the plain text editor, but it offers full blockquote support and has a source view.

All feedback welcome, please let me know how you find it.

#7 Posted 1 years ago

cedarwaxwing says:

Hey Dan -

Finally had a chance to use the new wysiwyg editor. It is better than the other one, for sure. I'm unhappy with the way it presents the blockquote though. The font is very tiny and italicized. For those of us older folk whose eyes are not as good as they once were, the font is nearly unreadable

Also - it adds unnecessary nonbreaking space codes. Can that be fixed somehow?

Thanks --

#8 Posted 1 years ago

danchamp says:

Thanks for the feedback Dona. The non-breaking spaces problem is fixed on the development server, it will be reflected on the site at the next update (within 48 hours).

I've adjusted the blockquote presentation, changing the entire review to a serif font, which I think is much more readable. Let me know what you think.

#9 Posted 1 years ago

cedarwaxwing says:

The blockquote looks a lot better now. Thanks Dan.

I just looked another of my reviews though (Lady Chatterly) and it has a lot of weird symbols - I believe it is a euro symbol - in place of apostrophes.

#10 Posted 1 years ago

danchamp says:

Oh yes, that's not very good is it. A question: are you typing reviews in Word or some other software and then pasting them into the editor?

There are obviously some character encoding issues, I'll look into it.

#11 Posted 1 years ago

cedarwaxwing says:

I did type that one in word and didn't transfer it to notepad first. That's the problem? I'll edit it then.

(If you had a nice little spell check, then I'd be happy to simply type away in the editor. :-)

#12 Posted 1 years ago

cedarwaxwing says:

Should I wait to edit it until you've figured it out or can I do it now?

#13 Posted 1 years ago

danchamp says:

Sorry, missed those, I've converted it now!

No problem adding a spellchecker, I'll add it to the list. :-)

#14 Posted 1 years ago