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Re: Medium Editor

#31

Post by fennecfoxen » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 2:20 PM UTC

I don't really want to make a big deal about this like it's the most offensive thing in the world, BUT... why in God's good name did the software writers choose the sample passage they did? Gun violence, shooting people in the head, "motherfucker", etc.

Seriously? Was that the first thing that was sitting around, or did they pick it deliberately? Whatever happened to some good lipsum? Very strange. Possibly not the best sample text to promote software.

Re: Medium Editor

#32

Post by domrdy » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 2:33 PM UTC

fennecfoxen wrote: post #31

I don't really want to make a big deal about this like it's the most offensive thing in the world, BUT... why in God's good name did the software writers choose the sample passage they did? Gun violence, shooting people in the head, "motherfucker", etc. Seriously? Was that the first thing that was sitting around, or did they pick it deliberately? Whatever happened to some good lipsum? Very strange. Possibly not the b…

That would be http://slipsum.com/

Re: Medium Editor

#33

Post by canthonytucci » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 2:35 PM UTC

fennecfoxen wrote: post #31

I don't really want to make a big deal about this like it's the most offensive thing in the world, BUT... why in God's good name did the software writers choose the sample passage they did? Gun violence, shooting people in the head, "motherfucker", etc. Seriously? Was that the first thing that was sitting around, or did they pick it deliberately? Whatever happened to some good lipsum? Very strange. Possibly not the b…

It's from Jackie Brown. An excellent, vulgar, Quentin Tarantino movie with Pam Grier and Robert De Niro.

Edit: and of course Samuel L. Jackson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Brown_(film)

Re: Medium Editor

#34

Post by bergie » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 2:38 PM UTC

c2prods wrote: post #6

8ig8 wrote: post #2

This is nice, but is pretty much useless on a tablet. I realize that desktop users are the primary focus, but it seems like any new editor has to consider tablet/mobile use. It must be a difficult problem. Without using some kind of plain text markup syntax like Markdown, the user is required to select some text for formatting, but then you're competing with the OS's UI actions. Are there any good mobile/tablet brows…

I'd be interested too! I think on iPad, the easiest thing is to have a fixed toolbar at the top of text area. (But still, this repo is a very nice work!)

That is exactly what I do in Hallo: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/hallo-editor/

Re: Medium Editor

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Post by marchra » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 3:19 PM UTC

I don't understand the fried chicken references in the sample text. If it's a Medium Editor, shouldn't it be something like Why I Quit as Employee #X at Startup Y to Find Z.

Re: Medium Editor

#36

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 3:40 PM UTC

fennecfoxen wrote: post #31

I don't really want to make a big deal about this like it's the most offensive thing in the world, BUT... why in God's good name did the software writers choose the sample passage they did? Gun violence, shooting people in the head, "motherfucker", etc. Seriously? Was that the first thing that was sitting around, or did they pick it deliberately? Whatever happened to some good lipsum? Very strange. Possibly not the b…

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Re: Medium Editor

#37

Post by shizzy0 » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 4:02 PM UTC

Great on these people for making this available as open source. But referring back to medium.com: Really, this is why people are giving their content away because it has a nice web-based editor?

Re: Medium Editor

#38

Post by emehrkay » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 4:48 PM UTC

No jQuery == color me impressed

If I have the time, I may fork and add the ability to show which styles are applied to the selected text when the editor is brought up

Nice work

Re: Medium Editor

#39

Post by rip747 » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 6:13 PM UTC

zackkitzmiller wrote: post #18

rip747 wrote: post #17

WTF is am reading on the demo site for this project? https://github.com/daviferreira/medium-editor/blob/master/de... http://daviferreira.github.io/medium-editor/

A quote from Jackie Brown.

that's my point. as someone who had no idea of this, i would think that the author was a raving lunatic or something. at the very least put the thing in quotes and have a citation at the end.

Re: Medium Editor

#40

Post by callmeed » Fri, Sep 20, 2013, 7:29 PM UTC

drtse4 wrote: post #3

Nice, a few similar projects if someone need something slightly different: https://github.com/mduvall/grande.js https://github.com/sofish/pen https://github.com/tholman/zenpen

Do you know if any of these (or the OP one) could easily have image support attached?

I'm looking for a minimal editor that also allows very simple image support