joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Within the next hour or two, you should be seeing a new text editor on photo.net. It's a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor that will eliminate the need to know HTML to post stuff. This is a pretty big deal for photo.net and long overdue. However, please bear with us. As with anything new, it won't be perfect and there will likely be some glitches. Yes, I will create a tutorial that we can point people to, but for the moment, we are going to be flying blind. Though to anyone who has used other forum software, it is pretty self explanatory. I will just note a couple of things here: -You must have javascript enabled. The editor won't work if you have it turned off. -To make a link, you must first enter text, then highlight the text, and then click the "link" button. Some forum software allows you to click the link button, then enter the link location and the text to be linked. At least for the moment, this software does not. Though we are looking into it because that would be a better solution. -Yes, you can still enter your own HTML if you feel the need. Just click the "html" button on the far right. -Insert image is just like using the <IMG SRC> HTML tag. You need to provide a URL where the image exists. If the image isn't hosted online anywhere, you can still upload an image to your post after the confirm page, same as always. -I know that some folks insert HTML to images hosted places like flickr using the HTML that flickr gives you to embed the image. If you want to do this, you are going to have to use the "html" button to make it work. -The new editor is NOT a part of the no-words forum at this time. It's a different system in that forum. And hey, you aren't supposed to be writing words in the "no words" forum anyway. Anyway, like I said, please be patient. Report problems here or to me via the "contact photo.net" link at the bottom of the page.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joseph_wisniewski Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Can you do HTML other than the options listed? My main use of HTML on photo.net is tables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 You should be able to do any HTML you would have been able to do before. That having been said, there shouldn't be too much more HTML that people are putting into forums. I'm sure we've missed a few things that a few members will want. And there are probably a couple special applications where people might like to use a different tag (like your table example). But in my experience, what is there is what 99% of users need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_stemberg Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 I know that this is a HTML 'text editor' for the most used functions. Not sure how this will impact on those that use or need the Spell Check function perhaps coming from their chosen browser. Was there any chance of a spell-check function being incorporated in 'our' text-editor here? Just a thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>There is a chance for a spellcheck. I'm not sure why it isn't in there.</p> <p>I'll look into it.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p><em>Golly gee</em> . <strong>Fantastic</strong> . <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Where is the correct within a period of time function?</span> (just kidding, Josh, I know it'll get here when it gets here.)<br> Is the insert picture feature working yet? Or do you have to put in link to the picture and then choose the insert button, or some such?<br> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>There seems to be something wrong with the "link' and "insert image" buttons. Jin is working on it.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
testy Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>This is a test.</p> Damn right is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>Actually, if you look, you should see an "edit" button next to your posts for ten minutes after you make them.<br> I'm just trying to deal with one thing at a time.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>Oops, I just reread the above instructions. It may just be attention deficit syndrome on my part....</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
testy Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 Testy is testing things. What I mean is: You had best represent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>That's even more fantastic news about the timed editor. That'll be really nice, and I can wait for it. Just very appreciative.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>JDM, you aren't seeing the "edit" link next to your post? I am seeing it on both my "Josh Root" and "Testy" accounts.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>Folks, while I just announced the text editor in this thread, a bunch of stuff went live. So please be patient while we work it all out.</p> <p>It's friday night, I'm supposed to be paying attention to my wife (and I'm sure Jin is as well). We'll do our best to keep an eye on things. But some stuff may have to wait.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spearhead Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p><em>I'm supposed to be paying attention to my wife (and I'm sure Jin is as well)</em></p> <p>Jin is paying attention to your wife?</p> Music and Portraits Blog: Life in Portugal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>Errrrr.....yes. She's very demanding you see.</p> <p>No, of course Jin is probably paying attention to his wife.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>As I say, I can wait --certainly until next week--but no. Up to now I am still not seeing the edit button.</p> <p>I'm running right now on FireFox 3.04 on Mac OS 10.5.6 on a G4 machine. My other desktop is an Intel one running the same system and browser. I'll try it later.</p> <p>Here goes....</p> <b>YES</b> Now it is there. Fantastic. If I were my labrador retriever I'd probably wet the floor.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>Can someone check and see if this thing is working in IE7? That browser always gives us fits.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsimmons Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">firefox</span> here <strong>3.0.4</strong><br> </p> <ol> <li>Nice</li> <li>Very nice</li> <li><a href="http://www.photo.net">Sweet</a> </li> </ol> <p>This will make things a lot smoother. Cool beans dudes.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 <blockquote> <p>This will make things a lot smoother.</p> </blockquote> <p>That's what I am hoping.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeljlawson Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>Josh, on IE7 I cannot even type in the box, page never finishes loading. I get an error on page message.<br> Line:76 Char:2 Error: Access is denied. Code: 0 URL: http://www.photo.net/site-help-forum/00Ri6N</p> <p>Good news (for me) is that Firefox works and that is my prefered browser.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p><strong>It</strong> <em>doesn't</em> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">suck</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">much</span> .<br> This will mean:</p> <ul> <li>Excessive use of bullet points;</li> <li>The begining/end/middle of Western/Eastern/Minor League <del>Civilization</del> </li> <li>Gratuitous Alice Cooper videos (if someone figures out a workaround for embedding from YouTube) </li> </ul> <p> <object width="425" height="344" height="344" width="425"> </object> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>Crap, that was what I was afraid of.</p> <p>Thanks Michael, I'll send a 911 note to Jin. I'm glad we did this on a friday night when posting is slow.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>Ah, I couldn't trick it into embedding Alice Cooper's "Halo of Flies". Thank goodness, Minor League Civilization is safe for another day.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeljlawson Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 <p>I'll keep checking back to this post at least for the next hour or so to see if you need more testing. No promises after that, I've spent the last two nights doing after hours IT work at my day job already.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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