Removing the scrollbar from the post editor one of the worst "improvements" yet
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Hi there,
Since I switched to maxcloud browser I didn’t have any editor problem. Does anyone here want to give it a try?
http://www.maxthon.com
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@ lilmaouz,
Did you have any problems before you switched to…that browser which you haven’t named correctly?
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oops! sorry :))
Before maxthon, I used to use firefox ^^
I’ve created a new (quite long) test-page half an hour ago and while (for instance) I couldn’t simply copy & paste anything using ff, it’s been super easy with maxthon. (I’m french, sorry for my poor english ;) -
There’s not much reason to keep following this thread. It looks like there won’t be any more updates from staff, and the changes are here to stay.
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Hi there!
I’ll continue to update this thread for any new bug fixes that come up this week. Please stay subscribed. Thanks!
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I keep thinking this change is no improvement at all. AT LEAST keep the right column “still” (like the editor panel) so I don’t have to scroll up and down to make edits and then save/publish
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@druesome
Please update us on the return of the scrollbar… and the rollback of the non-improvement that is proving so frustrating for WP bloggers. Has WP considered, as at least one person has suggested in his/her comments here, at least allow the text of each post to move and scroll along with the sidebar. For me, scrolling up and down, up and down — as I add tags for 30+ names in each day’s post at ourherstory.net — is still so much more tedious and unnecessarily time-consuming than it was before when we had our scrollbar inside each post. Please reply. -
No, please keep it, the new solution is much better than the old one, scrolling areas within scrolling areas are a total pita.
And for those who forgot that they also have a keyboard: “Command + Arrow Up” (on Mac, I assume “Control + Arrow Up” on Win and Linux) scrolls immediately to the top.
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@vilmoskoerte: “Ctrl+Arrow Up” doesn’t exist on Windows and Linux. We have Pg Up & Pg Down (which is also available for Macs). You’re also overlooking the need to quickly move between sections within a long post to make edits or to retrieve information to use elsewhere; for instance, I need to go back to various places in LONG posts (as opposed to yours – your blog is a photo blog with very little text, so you don’t have the needs other people have, and it’s counter-productive to think that what sort of works for you will work for others) to copy link addresses in order to use them in my posts’ references (“See also”) section.
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there is the global “jump to top” – center of the top nav bar – the triangle symbol with a bar on the top of it – click on that and you will jump to the top of the page
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In the middle of the dark grey horizontal bar on top of the WP.com window, there’s a small arrow pointing up. It takes us straight to the top, but it’s not a solution for quickly navigating to various places in a long blog post.
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> I don’t see any “jump to top / triangle symbol”
it’s present for me (firefox 31, windows 8) but i don’t find it particularly helpful most of the time.
i’ve mentioned before that i don’t do a lot of text editing in the post editor — because my personal bias is that all web-based editors are inferior to all Real Editors, i edit in a Real Editor (i use the one that i’ve got the t-shirt for), then cut-and-paste into the post editor, proofread, add links and stuff then publish. the recent changes are still annoying, though — things jump around at the most inconvenient times, the line i’m working on often vanishes offscreen and scrolling is more intrusive than it was. i don’t find the ‘jump to top’ arrow to be that helpful. an always-visible button to “put my cursor right in the middle of the visible window” would be nice but if it exists i haven’t found it yet.
that said, it’s clearly a done deal. ‘they’ clearly knew this would be contentious in a certain population but went ahead anyway so there are clearly Reasons Why It Was Going To Be Done. hopefully those reasons are to make something wonderful down the road. in the meantime, well, better stock up on turd polish.
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Another relatively new editing issue discovered today. Not sure when it began. Can no longer remove a text color in visual editor mode. For the past six years this could usually be done by simply highlighting the colored text and selecting the color previously applied. In other words, you select the color from the toolbar once to apply color to the text, and select the same color again to undo the color. This no longer works.
It’s a pretty large problem for me, especially on pages or posts containing lists or indexes (often comprised of link lists) with intermittent coloring of text, and on long text-heavy posts where color is used variously for titles, emphasis, quotations, etc. Now we must painstakingly search for and remove each unwanted color tag from HTML, as opposed to the previously available method of swiftly and easily undoing the color with a highlight and click
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Please at least fix the bar on the right. I know how to jump at the top of the page with the keyboard, but I didn’t have to before.
So, an “improvement” that forces me to make an additional step is not really an improvement. -
I guess the “fix” is in place. It’s truly horrible. But there are several other threads complaining about it, so I won’t rant here.
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So, now they even replaced the old editor with this mobile editor in the drop down menu of your account name under “blogname>new post”.
Also if you click on edit of one of your excisting posts. It will open a very strange new editor. Please! Don´t remove the old editor completely. It´s now still accessable via “dashboard>post>add new”. Even if it is now more confusing to access, please let it stay for the people who love the old editor. I won´t touch the new editor.
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You mean that big blue page is the fix???
I hate it too. I hate that now instead of simply clicking under my name in the top right and choosing New Post, I get the Big Blue Page. I have to go into the dashboard now and then click New Post. What in the world are the devs thinking? Can you not fathom that some of us like things just the way they are?
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