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Aloha Editor: an awesome HTML5 browser based editor

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Re: Aloha Editor: an awesome HTML5 browser based editor

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Post by draftkraft »

jasonkester wrote: post #17

Hmm. Not particularly impressive thus far. Here were my first two impressions: - Tried the link last night several times, and the server never responded. - Tried again today, it came up, I selected some text and clicked "Heading". The whole document turned bold. Hit Ctrl+Z and nothing happened. Left. Stuff like this is all about first impressions. These guys managed to screw that up for me twice. It's like Joel Spols…

Hi,

@1 thanks you for your feedback with the server. Actually we have a problem with the backup in the night (MEZ) on the server we cannot solve easily. I’ll have to switch to another host with the website.

@2 Heading works on the paragraph and makes a H1-6 element around the paragraph. This behavior is like in MS Word if you did not select 1 or more characters. The resulting style depends on the CSS. Maybe our demos do not point that out clearly. You should have a look at the resulting source code after some formatting.

And yes, we still have some problems. Specially with tables. But I think it’s better to give others a chance to review and feedback in an early stage so we can react on the feedback. Thank you.

br haymo

Re: Aloha Editor: an awesome HTML5 browser based editor

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Post by draftkraft »

timmfin wrote: post #2

I like the idea, but you can't even insert a link with the editor. I assume it is just an oversight because it would make perfect sense to have an insert link button right next to the insert table button. Kind of a large omission though, especially if you are claiming HTML WYSIWYG. (And what about images?)

Hi timmfin, you are right. We don’t have a working link example yet. This is because of the concept we’d like to follow editing content. We don’t want to handle link’s as special elements. A link is A tag but the rest is like any other tag in a HTML document with the need to edit the SRC attribute. It also makes sense to enable Users to edit other elements like ABBR, CITE, etc. and a lot more specially when it comes to semantic annotation of content. Therefore we want to put a special attention to the editing of attributes like the SRC attribute of the A tag. I hope we can come up with that soon.

The same thing when it comes to insert any image or even other resources like automatic list from databases, slideshows, flash videos and the more. We are experimenting with a “block” concept which enables the user to insert non editable blocks like the above and handle their content. Still you will need to write an plugin to the resource source of your choice.

Thank you.

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