[UCIMC-Tech] F-ed Up WYSIWYG Editor

[Mike Lehman]

Josh,
Here are three:
http://www.ucimc.org/content/why-50-billion-radioactive-antique-toilet-still-stimulus-bill
http://www.ucimc.org/content/media-worldwide-face-climate-fear-report-says
http://www.ucimc.org/content/fundamentally-flawed-stimulus-coverage
Thanks,
Mike Lehman

Josh King wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Do you have a link to any of your test posts that demonstrate the 
> problem? I'm going to be working on fixing the teasers and image 
> problems today. I upgraded the WYSIWYG editor last week as part of 
> that, but it may have had some unintended consequences that I didn't 
> catch. I'll be changing the way that the IMC site handles images and 
> updating things to bring it in line with the versioned software 
> repository I've been doing most of my work in. Unfortunately I won't 
> be at the Tech meeting tomorrow to discuss what I'm doing, but maybe 
> we should schedule an IMC-Web meeting later this week or sometime next 
> week to discuss site issues and changes.
>
> Mike Lehman wrote:
>> Recently, the WYSIWYG editor for the website has been causing people 
>> trouble posting. It looks like it just won't handle paragraph breaks 
>> anymore. You can look at numerous posts and see things that are all 
>> squashed together. I've made several test posts and had the issue 
>> crop up. On the other hand, sometimes it works, so I'm not quite sure 
>> what's going on.
>>
>> This seems to have happened in the course of recovery from the CSS 
>> problems we've had recently. It's possible that this is unrelated, 
>> but that would be a good place to start checking.
>>
>> Another, possibly related, issue is the very short Feature preview 
>> that occurs, cutting off an article without sufficient text to look 
>> good or read well.
>>
>> Hopefully, it's a matter of configuration and both can be easily 
>> fixed. Like the problem of not being able to post graphic files, 
>> which I think has been broken for six months now, it makes the 
>> website look like something out of the mid-1990s and discourages 
>> people from posting.
>> Mike Lehman
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