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Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by navs »

bergie wrote: post #10
callmevlad wrote: post #5

Glad to see that contenteditable-type editors are becoming more viable. Looks like Copybar uses Redactor, but I'm hoping bergie's http://hallojs.org/ gets a lot more traction since it's the only one that's MIT licensed.

The good thing about Hallo is, besides licensing and easy plugin development, the fact that it uses plain, unstyled contentEditables, so the stuff you're editing looks exactly like it will look on the real page. I integrated Redactor as another editor option in Create.js a while back, but it looks a bit strange because it changes the styling of the currently active content area. Other than that it is very simple and…

Hallo looks amazing! I need to find a way to integrate this into Drupal.

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by bergie »

wamatt wrote: post #39
bergie wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The good thing about Hallo is, besides licensing and easy plugin development, the fact that it uses plain, unstyled contentEditables, so the stuff you're editing looks exactly like it will look on the real page. I integrated Redactor as another editor option in Create.js a while back, but it looks a bit strange because it changes the styling of the currently active content area. Other than that it is very simple and…

Bergie's halloJS is awesome! Would be great to see some keyboard support in the future however. eg Super-B/ctrl-b for bold. Haven't tested on Windows, but OS X is lacking working functionality in the latest build

I think there has been some work on OS X keybindings, but in general, Pull Requests are welcome!

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by bergie »

navs wrote: post #40
bergie wrote: post #2

Interesting. Though of course you can just use my http://createjs.org/ and get pretty much the same thing for free :-)

Love it! Now a quick question, is there any way to allow for editable blocks to be re-arranged via some form of drag and drop interface? Or is there anyone out there that knows of a library that could possibly do this?

Not yet integrated upstream, but you can see block drag-and-drop in action with Create in http://demo.contentcontrol-berlin.de/

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by navs »

bergie wrote: post #43
navs wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love it! Now a quick question, is there any way to allow for editable blocks to be re-arranged via some form of drag and drop interface? Or is there anyone out there that knows of a library that could possibly do this?

Not yet integrated upstream, but you can see block drag-and-drop in action with Create in http://demo.contentcontrol-berlin.de/

A bit buggy right now on Mac OSX Chrome 22 but I see what you're doing. Can't wait to see the final implementation. Awesome work.

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by skyhook_mockups »

Interesting concept, well done for shipping. Just a couple of points:

- You id="mask" element has a higher z-order than your formatting popup making it impossible to select styles in the demo.

- The blink from the original to the edited content is kind of jarring. Not sure where your servers are, but here from AUS the lag was very noticable.

- This is a peeve I have with all editors: When you select a H1,2,3 etc style the entire block is styled. This is the opposite of what users expect. Instead you should break that fragment out and run your execCommand on it. This way only the selected text receives the style and your users aren't left scratching their heads :)

- Consider adding an in-line editor for in-line images. Popping over a modal editor onmouseup is not intuitive for your average Joe.

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by modarts »

neya wrote: post #25

Just one small feedback as a designer, if you want to see more conversions for sign-ups, convert that black sign-up button into green. Other than that, it's perfect!

Design impaired developer here; i'm interested to know how you picked green as being a trigger for more conversions, is there some data with A/B testing this color choice comes from?

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by marccantwell »

skyhook_mockups wrote: post #46

Interesting concept, well done for shipping. Just a couple of points: - You id="mask" element has a higher z-order than your formatting popup making it impossible to select styles in the demo. - The blink from the original to the edited content is kind of jarring. Not sure where your servers are, but here from AUS the lag was very noticable. - This is a peeve I have with all editors: When you select a H1,2,3 etc styl…

Copybar cofounder here, thanks for the great feedback. We'll take a look at the mask issue asap. Delivery will continue to be optimized and I dig your ideas on the styling and image editing, look for those enhancements soon.
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