Our new posting editor bugs

Muddle Manor wrote:Muddle ManorUpdate on my end.

    I have now been asked by frustrated members if I will, as administrator, assist in editing emails into forum posts for them.  Of course I'm willing to help make this transition easier for them while we all wait for fixes to be implemented.  But I need to point out what a sad state of affairs it is when an Administrater of a forum needs to assist in this way.  The text editor is a major component of a forum-based environment.  When it goes wrong, it's devastating to the community.  I hope you're able to implement a fixed version soon.  My members have agreed it's best to just drop all activity until this is resolved.

    I have my profile set to display I use IE.  I do use other browsers.  However, I always use IE to test my pages as a very base minimum.  (Bearing in mind, that's how most computers come out of the box and many users, for whatever reason, don't upgrade.)  So the following two issues are from an IE perspective.  I encourage your team to not ignore IE specific issues.  I hope the following information is helpful.

    1.
    I've tested between the Editor Modes, and each seem equally glitchy when it comes to format tags.  The application's ability to process the tags seems sporatic at best. It appears that extensively formatted posts have more issues with disappearing (or hidden) tags than moderately formatted ones.

    2.
    While editing posts, entire sections of text will be completely removed.  There is no option but to cancel the edit, copy the text from the forum post (outside the editor) and replace the text via edit before editing what you were there to edit in the first place. This creates a nearly non-functional experience due to the unpredictability and frustration.  (I, personally, believe this must be related to point #1 because the missing text appears to be happening at moments of format changes.)

melodiccolor wrote:Well this is interesting, you can go back and change a portion of your post by highliting and changing it, but if you do, and you go back to your current part in the post, it retains the old settings that were there in the earlier part before the change.  You have to reset the settings again for where you are now.  So I am in the wrong font.

OK, html coding for size still does show. Interesting

Edited to add that when I went down to the bottom of the post, the settings did return to where they were just above, but not on the portion inserted in the middle.  Very odd quirk.

melodiccolor wrote:Our hosts have introduced a brand new posting editor that is completely revamped.  It can do many new things.  However, it does have some bugs.

You will find it is incompatible with Internet Explorer so posts will not show nor will PMs work.  Images won't show if you use the image tab because it inserts another http?//: at the beginning.

One user at our host forum noted these bugs using IE:

Muddle Manor wrote:Muddle ManorUpdate on my end.

    I have now been asked by frustrated members if I will, as administrator, assist in editing emails into forum posts for them.  Of course I'm willing to help make this transition easier for them while we all wait for fixes to be implemented.  But I need to point out what a sad state of affairs it is when an Administrater of a forum needs to assist in this way.  The text editor is a major component of a forum-based environment.  When it goes wrong, it's devastating to the community.  I hope you're able to implement a fixed version soon.  My members have agreed it's best to just drop all activity until this is resolved.

    I have my profile set to display I use IE.  I do use other browsers.  However, I always use IE to test my pages as a very base minimum.  (Bearing in mind, that's how most computers come out of the box and many users, for whatever reason, don't upgrade.)  So the following two issues are from an IE perspective.  I encourage your team to not ignore IE specific issues.  I hope the following information is helpful.

    1.
    I've tested between the Editor Modes, and each seem equally glitchy when it comes to format tags.  The application's ability to process the tags seems sporatic at best. It appears that extensively formatted posts have more issues with disappearing (or hidden) tags than moderately formatted ones.

    2.
    While editing posts, entire sections of text will be completely removed.  There is no option but to cancel the edit, copy the text from the forum post (outside the editor) and replace the text via edit before editing what you were there to edit in the first place. This creates a nearly non-functional experience due to the unpredictability and frustration.  (I, personally, believe this must be related to point #1 because the missing text appears to be happening at moments of format changes.)

In addition, I noted these bugs:

melodiccolor wrote:Well this is interesting, you can go back and change a portion of your post by highliting and changing it, but if you do, and you go back to your current part in the post, it retains the old settings that were there in the earlier part before the change.  You have to reset the settings again for where you are now.  So I am in the wrong font.

OK, html coding for size still does show. Interesting

Edited to add that when I went down to the bottom of the post, the settings did return to where they were just above, but not on the portion inserted in the middle.  Very odd quirk.

They are working on the problem of the emoticon displays.

For more information on what our new editor can do, see http://funhsps.niceboard.org/t1164-some-of-the-things-we-can-do-with-forums#55142

As you can see, just copying and pasting to quote retains the settings of the text quoted, another bug.  Yet the text in the quote reverted to standard at the same time.

Please post here if you find any other problems using the new browser.

• Our old smiley box is back.
  
• The cursor will now go below the quote box in WYSSIWIG mode
  
• The links tab works
  
• PMs now work in IE, but they are still working on full compatibility so some freezing may still occur
  
  
•  mobile devices are still not fully compatable with the new editor
  

• the image tab still is not working properly so we need to use the img /img tabs to insert images