Code push has happened!

[mark]

Hi all, I'm preparing to do a code push. You can see the latest code tour here: https://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/214638.html

Hang on to your hats!

Edit: The code has pushed! As always, please let us know if you see anything wonky or broken and we'll get on it!

Known Issues - Fixed 'em Maybe?

* Font size was way too small. We've tweaked them to be larger, but would welcome more feedback!
* Lack of ability to horizontally resize comment area. This has been fixed, you can drag the box horizontally again like you should be able to!
* A couple of style issues have been found and fixed.
* An issue affecting some Navigation strips has been fixed.
* An issue affecting syndicated accounts, proxied images, and a couple other worker related tasks were broken. They're better now.
* We've made some updates to the design of the comment reply form, we brought back the browse button, made the subject line full-width, and some other tweaks. Please let us know what you think!
* The RTE on the old create entry form is returned to service. A few more months, that's all we ask of you old friend...
* OpenID was broken, it's back.
* Button sizes are reset to default, we are no longer trying to make things line up. Let the ziggurat design pattern live on.
* Polls should show properly sized bars again.
* Lots more Android issues, we had to murder the unused spellcheck button to make it work out. Some weird interactions with differently sized elements and our ancient HTML.

Known Issues - Pending

* Related, some fields seem to have gone emo and are putting on heavy eyeliner (have bold, dark outlines). We're aware.

All known issues are being investigated and will be fixed! Please hang tight while we work on it :)

If you are reporting something visual, please let us know what browser/device you're on!

Comments

[alyndra]

Yeah, I've been thinking about this too. Maybe the username and "More Options" could go on the top line, icon dropdown and Random/Browse buttons on the second line, and subject on its own line below those? That seems like it would be good workflow.

Quote would be a bit of a sore thumb, hm. Probably should go somewhere above the text-entry box, maybe wherever other buttons, like from the DW Tools extension, go? Because it got mentioned in this post, I just downloaded it and it's kinda cool: I can create my own buttons for HTML, even if they currently look all stretched out!

[roadrunnertwice]

Quote's the odd-one-out right now for sure. "More options" is really a partial "submit" button, so I do think it belongs down below with post and preview.

This is all "redesign the talkform" territory, though — I feel like everyone agrees that we need formatting buttons and a markdown/HTML mode switcher, and trying to get the current controls lined up ~just right~ ends up being wasted effort past a certain point because we'll have to shift everything around shortly anyway.

[alyndra]

Mm, I can see how from a backend perspective it looks like a partial submit...but I think the main reason for people to use it is going to be to swap accounts, and I think if you put the username up there and people see that it's not the account they want to post from, they're going to be looking around there for a option to switch.

(What other Options is it for? Subjecticons, the autoformatting ticky, and the link to the icon page all seem pretty niche comparitively.)

On further consideration, I think letting the Quote button hang out at the right end of the Subject line might be ideal (at least until there are more formatting buttons for it to hang out with) because that's the point in the workflow (deciding what the post is about/replying to) that it naturally would go.

I admit I didn't ever use Quote or even know what it did before today, ha, because it looked like part of the auto-format option so even if I wanted to quote and reply to something, I'd just do it by hand!

[kaberett]

I really appreciate all the thought you are putting into interface options. Just saying.

[alyndra]

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