Better Editor
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Manish Bhalla
Please do a thorough research and analysis on the editor itself. It sometimes freezes, bullet lists don't work as expected and it is generally very confusing to edit content.
Take Google docs as an example and run a couple of use cases on helpjuice editor as well the google docs editor and see the difference.
Emil Hajric
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Caleb Scharf
Emil Hajric - I know you are beta testing a completely updated editor with the same functionality as the current. What's the status? Any ETA?
Michael Bishop
Should be able to cut and paste elements of the article such as callouts text blocks, accordians etc,
Should be able to cut and paste them between articles
Should be able to number headers and quickly enter a sequenced set of headers as instructions with smaller body text details under each heading.
John Matos
Most of this product is text editing, so its an unfortunate shortcoming. A reasonable workaround would be to let us "skip" the editor by being able to enter plain text and use markdown syntax for formatting. I understand this feature exists but only as a global setting. I do not know the implementation details, but perhaps itd be a quicker fix to make per-user markdown an option than to reinvent a javascript text editor?
Caleb Scharf
John Matos: You can hit the little code view button in the tool bar on a per article basis.
John Matos
Caleb Scharf: Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like that drops me into HTML editing though? The idea is to use markdown which is a pleasant balance of regular text editing and some layout control. HTML is far too verbose for text editing.
Caleb Scharf
John Matos: you’re correct, my mistake.
Mike Tulloch
What I've told people is that knowing HTML is a requirement for contributing information to a HJ site. I guess I'm old school, but I don't expect a VISUAL HTML editor to do everything that can be done in HTML -- you do know that not even Dreamweaver can do that, right? So while there are some bugs that do need to be stomped out, I'd also recommend some realistic expectations. Google is a multibillion dollar company and they make their money by harvesting your data, so of course they have time to make their freeware really good - it's not their actual product. You are.
Denis Omerovic
Hey folks,
I've made some changes and fixed some of the issues Caleb Scharf mentioned like bullet lists inside accordions, editor jumps to the top after applying color… I would like you to test it and let me know if is working as expected.
Rose Nguyen
We've switched to the Markdown editor mode because the WYSIWYG mode was adding too much friction to the writing process. It's a smoother experience in Markdown, but would be a lot better if the editor displayed line numbers and we had the ability to enable commenting.
Hannah Judkins
Every one of the issues Caleb Scharf listed are issues I still deal with on a regular basis. I didn't realize how many bugs there were in the editor, since I've learned to correct the HTML in the HTML editor. But, I shouldn't HAVE to make edits to the HTML just to get intended editor-generated formatting to work properly. Please do make these fixes in the editor!
Emil Hajric
Caleb Scharf I'll send you an email. Your effort will not go unrecognized. Thanks :-)
Caleb Scharf
Emil Hajric: Thanks! I'm happy to hear your and your team will be looking into the bugs.
Caleb Scharf
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