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    A Warm Welcome to Our New Rich Text Editor

    By Michael Wolraich on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 4:06pm | Potpourri

    Dear readers,

    I am sad to report that dagblog has been forced to dismiss a member of our team after years of faithful service.

    You may not know TinyMCE by name, but she has served has our Rich Text Editor since 2008 when dagblog was founded. Every word that you have ever typed at dag has been tenderly processed and formatted by the indefatigable Tiny.

    True, she sometimes garbled the font and impulsively inserted extra lines between paragraphs. And yes, her spellchecker never worked very well. But she did her job every day without complaint and kept dagblog humming.

    Unfortunately, she has not kept up with the latest technologies. Users of IE 9.0, reported that they were often unable to write comments. I tried to upgrade Tiny, but that caused trouble for Firefox users, so I had to revert the upgrade.

    At long last, with my patience exhausted, I recommended to the board that Tiny move on. We wish her well wherever her future takes her.

    In her place, we have brought on CKEditor. CK has really improved his game since his brash youth when he called himself FCKEditor. He is professional, capable, and efficient. He can handle pasted content from Word. His spellchecker works. I think that you will like him.

    CK's toolbar is pretty much the same as Tiny's. He has a few more emoticons, though I must confess that they're not quite as attractive as Tiny's.

    Adding a youtube video (using the filmstrip icon) is now a little more complicated. Instead of pasting the URL into the dialog box, you must now copy-and-paste the embed code, which you can find if you click "Share" and then "Embed" under the video over at youtube. On the plus side, it is now far easier to embed non-youtube videos the same way.

    Also, if you haven't familiarized yourself with the teaser break, please check out the button on the top-right. You can use it override the automated division between the "teaser" snippet that shows on the main pages and the rest of the article that goes below the fold.

    (Sort of related, I know that many of you like to start your blog posts with large pictures. I would prefer if you moved the pictures below the teaser break, as they can make it difficult to browse the front page and reader blog page. Thanks)

    Please let me know if you have any trouble or questions about CK. If you find yourself unable to comment, you can click "Switch to plain text editor" or contact me directly.

    - Genghis

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    Thank you.  cheeky  I like it.   


    by trkingmomoe on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 4:28pm

    It's great.  Nicely done, Genghis.


    by Michael Maiello on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 4:36pm

    Now that she's gone, I can say it: I really came to hate Tiny. Just today -- probably knowing it was her last day on the job -- she deleted at least two comments when I forgot to disable rich text.

    Just curious: now that the glitch is fixed, why would anyone want to switch to plain text?


    by acanuck on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 4:41pm

    I used to hand code HTML sometimes.


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 2:14am

    I nearly went blind doing that.


    by acanuck on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 1:39pm

    In her place, we have brought on CKEditor. CK has really improved his game since his brash youth when he called himself FCKEditor. He is professional, capable, and efficient. He can handle pasted content from Word. His spellchecker works. I think that you will like him.

    Looks good so far.


    by cmaukonen on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 4:42pm

    I just thought: how did our new rich text editor get to be so rich? You're not going to raise membership fees again, are you, Genghis? I told you that lease on the Maserati is killing me, didn't I?


    by acanuck on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 11:48pm

    Not domestically, but we are enacting tariffs. Since your most prolific compatriot seems to have buggered off, you'll be responsible for the entire Canadian fee of $25,000 (Canadian) plus free health care and a moose.


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 2:12am

    Tariffs my ass. Asia had better be exempt from these so-called tariffs or I'm lodging a complaint with some friends I've made in the Chinese government. I'm pretty sure I can get them to call in America's debt based on some pictures I have from a wild night in Jakarta (don't ask). Dagblog doesn't want to be responsible for the collapse of the world economy, right? 


    by Orlando on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 8:35am

    Whatev. We all saw those pics on Twitter last week. You look hot in that orangutan suit.


    by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 10:13am

    I changed my mind. Tariff away. I'll totally be able to afford them after I win the sexual harassment suit.

    P.S. Spell checker just worked for me. Woot.


    by Orlando on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 10:35am

    I've got some moose steak in the fridge (I really do; it's just a bit freezer-burned) but I call NAFTA on the rest of your exorbitant demands. By the way, the new text editor was acting a bit sticky earlier, briefly creating a double post. It seems to have settled down now.


    by acanuck on Wed, 07/06/2011 - 1:38pm