Our new text editor is now available on all communities!

Pre-weekend update;

Delivered

• NEW Right-click contextual menu for spellcheck, cut, copy, paste has been restored 
• NEW The possibility to add spaces to hyperlinks

Quote behavior

We’re close to shipping improvements to the quoting behavior and expect these coming Monday, specifically:

• Chopping up user quotes in smaller portions to leave detailed feedback
• Exit a quote with double enter
• Start typing before a quote
• Remove a (nested) quote entirely

Priorities, next items, and investigations from the previous update still apply.

Updates on feedback since the last update

• We’ll investigate the ‘bounce’ behavior 
• We noticed that copy/pasting URLs with a display text from the community will be converted to underlined text. We will make sure the link + display text stays intact when you copy/paste a URL. This is already the case when you copy/paste a URL from external domains. E.g. Other respected academics have found that play can be good for business. /copied from https://modus.medium.com/why-play-matters-1be75e4ab77b. Next to this we’ll look into the former BBcode URL behavior and make sure these links are correctly converted to HTML.
• We’ll look into ‘missing words’ – could you point us at the topic where text disappears so we can investigate this?

New functionalities

I want to re-emphasize that we won’t add new functionalities (anchor links, colored text on user roles, HTML-editing, etc.) before we reach a stable version where the functionalities and user experience satisfies us all.

New updates :)

Delivered

• NEW Improved quote behavior is here (break a quoted section, multi-quotes, exit a quote, remove a quote etc.)
  • You can use the blue dotted guidelines in and around quotes to control your cursor and exit (inline) quotes.
  • Double enter inside a quote will automatically exit a quote.
  • Double enter inside a user quote will break it into multiple user quotes
  • Clicking the grey resize icon in the top left of a quote will select an entire quote. Selected quotes can be recognized by a 2px blue line. 
  • Select a quote and hit backspace to delete the entire quote
• NEW Added Bold, Italic, Underline to all viewports and devices*

*These functionalities are not available android devices in the firefox browser as they are not supported by the editor software provider

Priority Lane

• Return Poll functionality
• Copy/paste URLs with display text should remain URLs

Updates on feedback since the last update

• We’re evaluating enabling the color picker for everyone
• We have limited control over the responsiveness of tables as content, columns and rows are unique and differ per table. We’ll see if we can add a max-width to columns so the content inside it wraps into a new line more naturally.

Tables aren’t responsive. I would expect a table to have a 100% width (given a pre-defined minimum width). This way it doesn’t exceeds the viewport to the right. The cells’ width should be dynamic and the cells’ text should behave according to the width (e.g. automatically wrap into a new line).

The way it looks now is not optimal: 

It sees that delete/backspace is not working in all cases?

I was unable to delete the Spoiler section  (I’m using Version 77.0.3865.90 (Official Build) (32-bit))

Our community user (Firefox version 70.0 (32-bit))was unable to delete even a larger section:

Hi @Yoeri!

Thanks for the update! I am not really sure if these are bugs or what.

I’ve attached a recording below of what happened to me while trying to give our community user’s a heads-up on what’s the status with the editor.

When the quote has been selected, clicking enter doesn’t do anything.

If there’s a line break after a quote and I first @mention someone, Delete does not delete the line break.

I"m not sure what you mean and I think the current behavior of tables may be preferable in some cases. The notes app on iPhone behaves in the same way, for example.

Can you show me a page where a table behaves as you"d like it to?

Thanks for this update @Yoeri! There is one thing that doesn"t work with the quotes yet. We can"t change the name of the person who was quoted.

For example: if an user accidently has their phonenumber as username and we change that to something else, we can"t change the quote to their new username. For their privacy I very much like to hide something like that. Deleting the quote altogether might make the conversation confusing, so if possible I prefer not to do that.

Is this something that can return to the quotes? This was possible with the old editor.

Same problem here! We just had a new customer use profanity in username and he was quoted in another customers comment. Best solution would be that the quote function would check the username instead of just copying it as a text

Sure, I can: https://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_table_width 

You’ll find that this example table always uses 100% width, no matter how wide or narrow you pull the window width.

Hi,

A problem with the contextual menu. When right-clicking below the cursor line, the menu does not display correctly (there are no copy/paste/cut options).

Example :
Here, I right-clicked on the text cursor line (where there"s the red circle). We see the menu with copy/paste/cut.

Here, I right clicked below the text cursor line. There is no copy/paste/cut.
 

This happens on all browsers :)