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Artefore 
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 Quote Reply  Topic: With Regards to the New Text EditorPosted: 11 Nov 2015 at 06:56 |
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Having received an award from the devs for my work on the construction of my profile, I feel I am, if not uniquely, then more than adequately suited to address the new HTML editor the devs have implemented for such tasks as profile editing and IGM writing:
It sucks.
This conclusion was reached by myself after a period of tinkering with the new system, and it is by no means a fault of the reluctance to relinquish the old in favor of the new. It simply lacks the features the old system had. Gone are button options, which have given us the classic "Do Not Click" button at the bottom of T-O's profile. Gone are
underlines. And most significantly, gone are the justification tools. No longer can we achieve the simple task of centering text on the page without using an unwieldy amount of spaces. Justification is a necessary part of any page layout, and to remove it is, to me, a very strange move. I sincerely hope the devs will reinstate many if not all of these features in the near future.
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| Jane DarkMagic
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2015 at 07:02 |
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I agree with Fartefore
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| abstractdream
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2015 at 11:04 |
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Yes...having extensive experience with the old system, I will say that on first view, the new.system seems rather more limited. Is this a cost saving move? Just...NO
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| Brandmeister
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2015 at 12:33 |
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I think the new editor is absolutely awesome. The old editor was so overloaded that it crawled on my iPad 4. I would literally type, and then wait several seconds for the typing to appear. This editor is snappy and responsive, a HUGE improvement for what was formerly one of the most problematic features of the game. Even the preview function works better.
If you want center or underline, you can still switch to Source editor and add just about anything. My guess is that the devs can easily add widgets for underline and text justification. |
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| Artefore
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2015 at 12:50 |
They really, really should. And buttons too.
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| Mexican dwarf
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2015 at 18:17 |
Could you share the basic codes, how to do underlining ect, with us less-abled coders? I have no clue at all about coding or anything generally.
Also, I agree. Before I couldn't edit my profile or IGM's with anything more than text (I don't know why, adding gifs, pictures and links just froze) and I always thought this was because of my laptop. Now I realise it was all the software's fault, brilliant!
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| GM Rikoo
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2015 at 19:00 |
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Mexican Dwarf - brilliant animated icon! I want to steal it forever.
GM Rikoo
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| Mexican dwarf
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2015 at 19:06 |
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Its not mine Rikoo, I found it while searching the fan-sites
But thanks anyway, now...hands off
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| kodabear
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Quote Reply Posted: 11 Nov 2015 at 19:56 |
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The most annoying thing about the new text editor i cant even edit my profiles with out losing all the colored text or larger text or the scrolling text under the evil bear image. Even sending out battle report look weird now. Yes you can use the source to do some of these changes but they dont last long at all (if you hit enter to start a new line most of that stuff will go poof. If you want to see for your self that even the editing the source doesnt work well send me a IGM and i will send you an old copy of my profile's source.
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| Artefore
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Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 2015 at 06:56 |
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A new suggestion: Is it possible to let us choose which editor we want to use? Maybe have a toggle between the two? The "lite" version for mobile, and the "full" version for everywhere else? The lite version is adequate for writing mails but woefully underpowered for everything else.
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