The Forum is getting a new text editor

squirrelpie

Dreadful. The worst part of the existing editor is the quoting, and the new version just makes it worse Why can't we select text to quote just like every other forum in the world?

marialionza

Finally some new emojis. Now we can wish Merry Christmas decently.

Interesting Martin floating, I can say much about the rest. I will have to read it again.

Best of Luck everyone, keep winning !

Spoonie_Turtle

Hoorah for Alt text!!!  I think there needs to be a site-wide announcement about it, explaining what it is and why it's important because too many people don't know or understand the need - accessibility features are not much help if people don't bother to use them.

The new quote function looks horrendous if you can't bold bits of what you're quoting or delete bits of the original post that aren't relevant to the reply.  Surely there must be a way of solving the cursor-getting-stuck problem without making quotes extremely difficult to actually use.

Otherwise, looks good!

george4064

Really glad to hear this news! I often find myself ‘stuck’ within the quotations so particularly please to see that bug will be addressed.

MSE_Stephen

EssexHebridean said:

Lovely - but more importantly still, can we have the blue haired shrieking emoji back?! And the fainting "thud" one?!  

Surprised this is the top thanked comment 
 

Unfortunately, custom emojis are not currently supported - but I may have heard about it being a future possibility.

MothballsWallet

@MSE_Stephen with regards to:

"There won't be the ability to change text colour or size (apart from adding headings, bold etc.), and this is unlikely to be added as these can make text less legible. Accessibility is considered a very high priority which is why these abilities are not being considered by our provider"

As a developer myself, the W3C HTML standard and best practices state that changing text colours and sizes is a basic requirement in those documents - otherwise, your users will encounter problems with readability, especially if they have medical conditions that affect their vision.

Zanderman

MothballsWallet said:

@MSE_Stephen with regards to:

"There won't be the ability to change text colour or size (apart from adding headings, bold etc.), and this is unlikely to be added as these can make text less legible. Accessibility is considered a very high priority which is why these abilities are not being considered by our provider"

As a developer myself, the W3C HTML standard and best practices state that changing text colours and sizes is a basic requirement in those documents - otherwise, your users will encounter problems with readability, especially if they have medical conditions that affect their vision.

I may be misinterpreting your comment here, but surely the point being made by @MSE_Stephen is that there is no ability being given to the poster to change colours or font size - because a free-for-all with that would lead to accessibility problems, people writing in pale blue, or people shouting by using huge fonts. It's preventing the writer making problem changes.

The need for users with readability issues to change colours or text size is a need for the reader, not the writer, to make changes. That's surely something different.

t0rt0ise

The only thing that drives me nuts with the current forum is when hitting a link it doesn't open a new tab or window but uses the current window. Other forums do this automatically.

10_66

Sorry if this question should go on general Tech thread but, years ago (before the last couple of updates) I used to be able to click on the quote button on different pages and whatever number of quotes I clicked on appeared in the text box, so I could reply to more than one post in my post.  However, since the last couple of updates, if I'm on, say page 1 of a thread, and click on a post, then go to page 2 of the thread, the quote I'd clicked on from page 1 has disappeared.  I know there must be a way round this as I see others doing this.  How do I do this, please?

I use a PC not phone, don't know if that makes a difference.

Oasis1

Is it just me or does hitting the return/enter key to go to the next line

result in a space as if you've

hit in twice?