RTE User Research

Saturday, 27 March 2021 11:48
momijizukamori: (tits against the rte)
I got unstuck on the cursor issue I was having, so onward to new work! Which means I have some questions about what people expect behavior to be like.

1) If you have your cursor somewhere in a document, with no text selected, and you use either the toolbar button or keyboard shortcut to toggle a block element (like a blockquote or header), what do you expect to happen?

2) If you are inside a block element (like a blockquote or bulleted list), how do you expect to be able to exit the block element and resume writing 'normal' text?

(I also got unstuck on the AO3 Kobo reader, once I remembered how to build the package properly, but I'm going to work on Lolibrary search stuff today, I think)
momijizukamori: Grey tabby cat with paws on keyboard and mouse. The text reads 'code cat is on the job', lolcats-style (CODE CAT)
Because all my projects right now are stuck at like.... tedious bits and I'm having a massive moment of 'wehhhhh I don't wanna' so. Gonna catalog them here for now. Feel free to ask questions and whatnot, talking about things may push my excitement about them back up.

Dreamwidth )

Lolibrary )


personal )

New RTE, v2beta

Thursday, 4 March 2021 12:35
momijizukamori: Green icon with white text - 'I do believe in phosphorylation! I do!' with a string of DNA basepairs on the bottom (Default)
Now actually on my dev environment here (link will let you work as one of my dev testing accounts, rather than having to register a new one). We now have real image uploading! And partial cut tag support!

To-dos for this -
Editor functionality:
- Add font-size options
- Editing view for cut text/usernames
- alt/title updates for images
- sort out wonkiness with cut creation
- sort out p versus br/inline vs block issues, ugggggh
- clean up event handling

Look and Feel
- image upload button should be disabled for non-logged-in users
- styling to match site schemes
- figure out nicest way to collapse sections on small views/tackle 'so many toolbar buttons'
- selection styling
- button icons (currently using fontawesome for ease of use, but I don't really want to ship a whole webfont for like ten icons)
- display for error messages

Wiring
- selector to swap between RTE and html modes
- parsing for pre-existing entries into RTE editor (related to inline vs block issues, sigh)
- deleting images in the editor should also delete them from storage

Post-Beta
- Poll-creator rewrite, bleh
- Replacing the JS prompts with actual modals
- Keyboard shortcut doc


I am super interesting in hearing any feedback people have, both from regular RTE users and non-RTE-users. Not everything on the list above is going to make it in before we get to a production beta, but there's still some very rough/buggy edges which is why this is access-locked for now.
momijizukamori: Green icon with white text - 'I do believe in phosphorylation! I do!' with a string of DNA basepairs on the bottom (Default)
Today is the day I scream about social media start-ups on tumblr, apparently. Linking rather than crossposting, because I'm pretty sure my auto-crossposter would pull in the whole reblog chain and that's obnoxious.

My response to WritScrib, the newest attempt at a tumblr alternative (tl;dr - DW has 90% of the features already, would not implement 5% of them because they're bad ideas, and it would be far, far easier to add the extra 5% than reinventing the fucking wheel).

My additions to a conversation about fandom culture and history on social media and why you should use DW.

Basically I just want to shake people and scream 'DREAMWIDTH IS RIGHT FUCKING THERE OKAY'

(and now I'm going to try to calm down and go back to watching Nirvana in Fire and sewing)

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