[UCIMC-Tech] F-ed Up WYSIWYG Editor

[Mike Lehman]

Josh,
Thanks for tuning things up! I wouldn't sweat past postings too much if 
things are better going forward.
Mike Lehman

Josh King wrote:
> Well, the teasers are slowly rebuilding, hopefully to a suitable size, 
> and things are updated and I think I've fixed the pagebreak problem 
> (stories like the ones you mentioned will have to be re-saved before 
> the fix will show up). Before I can get any further with updates I 
> still need to fix the image handling which still baffles me after a 
> few hours of working on it, I'll continue working on that tomorrow.
>
> Mike Lehman wrote:
>> 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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