7 Jun

Video of New Content Editor

June 7th, 2007 — 10:20 pm — Dave

Over the past month or so we’ve teased folks with UI concepts for some cool javascript stuff based around our content editor. The first was the accordian history and the second was the snippet editor. Obviously with v0.4.0 we have actually implemented these concepts. Here’s a video to give you an idea of how they were finally used in slate. By the way, I would love to see the ModalBox style make it to TEH but I think that will be a project for another day… or week… or month :p

The order of the movie is: 1) showing the accordion style for versions happens fast, 2) showing the insertion of a textile link, 3) showing the insertion of an image snippet, 4) showing an edit of an image snippet, and 5) showing the insertion of a resource link snippet.

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#1: Ryan said on Jun 8 at 9:32 am

Looks great guys—I’m really impressed with the interface.

I’ve used lightbox-ish-type forms before, but it got pretty hairy. Although, I’ve never used lightbox forms in rails. I noticed you had paging when adding an image… was that difficult to do? I’ve seen a plugin or two for a lightbox interface in rails, did you write a rails interface for your lightboxes?

Again, everything looks intuitive and smooth. Nice job.

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#2: Chris said on Jun 8 at 9:47 am

We used Modalbox for the snippets interface. We like it because it slides down from the top the way alerts do in Safari. No plugins – just a few simple JS calls in the onclick for the buttons.

The paging wasn’t too bad – we already had a pagination_find plugin installed, I just had to modify the pagination partial to support AJAX calls.

Thanks again :-)

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#3: Jose said on Sep 2 at 4:13 am

I’m very surprised after view this video.
Please, can we try it? It will be avaiable for downloading?

Thanks a lot and congratulations.

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