Digital Doctor
Well-known member
TinyMCE was definitely unpopular.
Because the old one was trash. I spend several hours a day blogging via XF, and a significant amount of the time is wasted repeatedly try to get the old piece-of-trash editor to display things as I entered them.
TinyMCE could be customised, it was just painful as the CSS was a mess.
I created a resource here explaining how to do it: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/styling-the-wysiwyg-tinymce-editor.349/
TinyMCE was a nightmare.
Good point ... but ...@Garamond, the grey editor is consistent with previous releases, and is a rather neutral color. This allows it to 'fit' into most styles without much hassle and not have to restyle your editor to look out of place. Say a light blue editor or a bright green style (random example).
Will I be shot if I say I preferred TinyMCE?
Yes, it's neutral - but since the default theme isn't neutral then there should be some kind of adjustment to balance it out.@Garamond, the grey editor is consistent with previous releases, and is a rather neutral color. This allows it to 'fit' into most styles without much hassle and not have to restyle your editor to look out of place. Say a light blue editor or a bright green style (random example).
Then my work here is done.OK, now I cant stop laughing!
Good point ... but ...
By logical extension, Xenforo should ditch everything blue and make everything grey.
This doesn't make sense. XenForo chose blue as their default themes colors. It makes it easy to change, and most people do. I can't think of seeing a single instance where a style author actually styled the editor, so a grey editor + random color still works. But a non-neutral editor (blue) with a change forces style designers to update them. @Garamond, this is in response to you (my boss has me distracted).
Well, I see it the other way around.This doesn't make sense. XenForo chose blue as their default themes colors. It makes it easy to change, and most people do. I can't think of seeing a single instance where a style author actually styled the editor, so a grey editor + random color still works. But a non-neutral editor (blue) with a change forces style designers to update them. @Garamond, this is in response to you (my boss has me distracted).
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