New website editor

Hi dcosta

You are correct; it works some of the time. at other times it can make a post and the following posts unreadable by placing the advertisements to the right over the text, Word carries hidden punctuation and formatting data between lines of text, this often wreaks havoc with the MEW editor. There are other gremlins. Any software that only works some of the time needs to be fixed. Word works flawlessly with several other Engineering sites I post to.

Cheers

John

Hi John

If I use the 'Paste from Word' button, I can paste from word. Please can you explain what doesn't work for you, and I will see how I can fix it.

Thanks

Katy

Hi Katy Purvis

As I said above it works some of the time. I am sure it is the formatting characters that cause the problems.

From time to time I see the displaced adds on other MEW posters threads. there was one last week although I cannot remember where.

I stopped using word as an editor for this forum because of these problems. Quite frankly very inconvenient. As you are in the process of upgrading the Editor, surely there is a web page plug in editor that will not require a paste from word or any other editor button, there should simply be a paste text button or the shortcut ctrlV on the editor page to paste text as used by other Engineering forums.

Cheers

John

Edited By John McNamara on 16/02/2012 13:06:12

Thank you John.

The displaced ads are usually caused by a long link in a post, if you report such posts when you see them, they can be edited and fixed.

I take note of your complaint about paste from word, and will investigate it further. However another upgrade to a different editor is unlikely to happen in the near future, as we have only switched to this one in the forum today.

Thanks for your comments

Katy

A more appropriate title would be something like

New Forum text editor

This post is most definitely NOT about a website editor

CB

Hi There

It is about a text EDITOR on the WEBSITE.

regards David

Well what ever it is going to be called, I now only have to click once to go back one step instead of usually three or sometimes 4 times. A fine improvement. My browser is Firefox 10.01

John

You had that 'going back' problem as well, did you.

I kept blaming my poor old mouse.

I now notice that it works properly.

I also noticed we now have a better choice of smileys

Roy

Hi

You had that 'going back' problem as well, did you.

I kept blaming my poor old mouse.

I now notice that it works properly.

I also noticed we now have a better choice of smileys

Roy

Just checking, works on Ipad.

Ian

I hope Roy you have forgiven the poor old mouse

John

Perhaps a more serious problem is that, for me at least, clicking on the "quote" button at the end of a post no longer works. It takes me to the editor but the quote doesn't appear.

Russell.

My first impression of the new text editor (which I now know changed after this topic started) is not very positive.

I have only used it twice (including this message) and I found the spellchecker useless. Normally when I reply to posts I use the editor rather than pasting from another programme. To spellcheck I right click and use 'ie spell'. That facility is no longer available.

I must have a dictionary somewhere on the PC which SCAYT says it can use. Before I get involved I would like to ask if anyone has any experience with SCAYT, whether it is worth persevering with?

Ian P

Just to prove a point, I have quoted you Russell, it works for me, I'm using the latest Firefox release on a fully patched Windows 7 platform.

DC1, I appreciate what you are saying - It is about a text EDITOR on the WEBSITE. however, it is not about a 'website editor', that is something entirely different, I suspect that the title has drawn people in out of curiosity but the title is misleading, we are talking about a text editor not a website editor, the connotations of the two are entirely different!

The quote thing didn't work for me either with the latest Firefox (10.0.1) and XP.

Ian P, I was going to say you can get a spelling checker plugin for Firefox which works wherever you enter text on the internet. You have a choice of dictionaries too. Possibly something similar exists for IE.

However, for some reason it doesn't seem to be working here any more, which is bizarre since it should be independent of the site software.

There used to be a free spell checker for IE called IESpell, but I don't think it works with IE9, havent tried it as we have found so many incompatibility issues, we stick to IE8 for when its needed but use anything else in preference

Hi All,

I have never had a problem copying from “word”.

Peter.

Edited By Peter Tucker on 16/02/2012 17:56:28

Quote is working for me now. Perhaps someone is fixing the stuff in real time here.

As far as I can see, SCAYT, even when disabled, hijacks the right click which may be why my external (i.e. contained in the browser) spelling checker doesn't work now. To me that's a restriction and therefore a negative.

Edited By Sid Herbage on 16/02/2012 18:16:14

Yes, it's working for me again now. Thank you whoever fixed it.

Russell.

Hi Coalburner

That was the intention.

To get people to read it.

regards David

Russell

What is working again? Right clicking (and threfore 'IE Spell' is not working on my XP/IE8 machine.

Ian P