2.7 SUCKS
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@thesacredpath, I didn’t realise that the publish widget was draggable (and that that’s where the Save button lives). Thanks, that’s perfect. This allows the edit box to stretch to the full width of the screen and is thus eminently usable. I also discovered the fullscreen editing mode; something I’d never noticed before.
As to the scrollbar issue, I’m using 3.0.4 on WinXP, and it reports itself as “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)”
When the edit box is full width (LHS icons collapsed, RHS widgets placed below the edit box, the vertical scrollbar is fully functional.
If I push the Publish widget back to the top (while the LHS is collapsed), it overlaps the edit box slightly, and the scrollbar becomes semi-dysfunctional again: only the down arrow reacts. The bar and scroll pane don’t react at all.
If I collapse the LHS, the Publish widget no longer overlaps the edit box and the scrollbar is functional. I lengthen the edit pane, and I was able to click on the scrollbar background and the contents scrolled. The bar comes into view from behind the Publish widget, so I grab it to try and move it around. It doesn’t respond. And then I try clicking again on the scrollbar background and it no longer reacts.
In summary: no problems whatsoever when either the LHS or RHS (or both) are collapsed. The problems only appear when both are expanded.
It feels to me like a z-index issue and maybe another div is capturing the focus?
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A lot of responses here, to people who loathe 2.7 (and with some justification, I might add), are variations on the theme of “That’s your fault.” Er, no, it’s not – just because they don’t share the majority, almost entirely uncritical, view of 2.7, doesn’t make them wrong.
I know how 2.7 works, I’ve taken the time to learn it – hell, it’s not hard – I don’t like it and I never will. Very little is actually better, but a huge amount is different. Change, if not for the sake of improvement, is change for its own sake, and that’s rarely a good thing.
Yes, there are some people here who simply haven’t paid attention, and obviously there are bound, even here, to be some technophobes, but here’s a thought – maybe the critics are simply people who don’t accept that everything WordPress do is unavoidably wonderful. Dear god – the 2.7 announcement page was filled with people singing it’s praises when they couldn’t have had time to do much more than look at it, never mind use it, and that’s just a knee-jerk reaction. 2.7 improves posting and updating speeds a little, other than that, there is nothing that actually makes the experience of using it better than before, and some aspects of it are seriously counter-intuitive.
Consider this question, which has appeared quite a bit: “Am I the only one who can’t find a ‘visit site’ link from the dashboard?” The stock answer is “Click the title of your blog in your admin header area. If you hover over the link, you will see “Visit Site”.” Please tell me in what way this is actually an improvement over having a Visit Site button? It’s pretty obvious you click there – it says Visit site without hovering over it – but that’s just different, it’s not BETTER, and that’s what I’m saying; it’s a pointless change. Bottom line – if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. It’ll be interesting to see how 2.7 is received by WP .org.
And here’s a thing, 2.7 has just published an unfinished post without any help from me! I was nowhere near the Publish button – I was typing tags and categories. Whose fault is that, then? Call me picky, but 2.7 gets my vote.
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@ronsrealm. I like many of the 2.7 changes. But, I agree with you and what annoyed the hell outta me was all who said, “Just click on your blog title.” I guess being someone who worked in Quality Assurance for so many years, I couldn’t understand why light bulbs weren’t flashing and bells ringing in people’s heads saying, “This was a stupid, arbitrary change – let’s put it back to the way it was.” Instead, all’s I saw was a lot of kissing up, IMHO. But, they did put something back, which I think will help greatly. Especially since WordPress claims that they get SO MANY new bloggers every month. Now if they’d just put the forum and support buttons back up (along with tabs for those who have more than one blog); I’d feel less like some changes were made just for the sake of changing it.
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The new dashboard is a bit cute, but this new navigation scheme is too hard to be learnt. :(
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