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New Roller Editor UI theme.

In preparation for the March release of Roller 0.9.9, I'm trying to come up with a better looking theme for the Roller Editor UI. I just committed JSP and CSS changes for my first attempt at a new theme. Here is the mockup that I started with:

Roller theme in blue

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I've been spinning my mind around how to improve the weblog editor. After watching my wife use Roller for the last few months it has become increasingly evident how hard it is for an HTML-naive user. I've continued this thought <a href="http://www.brainopolis.com/roller/page/lance/20040226#roller_s_painful_weblog_editor">on my own blog</a>.

Posted by Lance on February 26, 2004 at 10:06 AM EST #

If I can get my act together, I'll write <a href="http://webtest.canoo.com">Canoo WebTests</a> to verify all links/buttons work on the UI. I can do this with the old theme or new. <br /><br /> Are editor themes switchable or users only get one choice?

Posted by Matt Raible on February 26, 2004 at 10:23 AM EST #

Anthony Eden suggested this WYSIWYG editor: <a href= "http://www.brainopolis.com/roller/page/lance/20040226#roller_s_painful_weblog_editor"> htmlArea</a>. On initial glance, looks like the license will allow us to ship it with Roller.

Posted by Dave Johnson on February 26, 2004 at 11:00 AM EST #

Dave, it looks like <a href="http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/">htmlArea</a> functions the same as our current dHtml version, though it appears to be a better execution of the concept. It uses the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnmshtml/html/mshtmleditplatf.asp">MSHTML Editing Platform</a> to generate (lousy) HTML. Once JTidy is ready for integration (I was looking at it yesterday and noticed it still has significant bugs) that will help generate clean XHTML. Matt, I've done some preliminary work on making the editor theme switchable, but it was untenenable with the current UI. From Dave's mockup above it may become possible very soon.

Posted by Lance on February 26, 2004 at 11:26 AM EST #

i know not related directly with the issue, but is it possible to put a theme that allows you to see next, previous months? the current calendar only allows you to go next-previous in daily basis. And please do not use MS only stuff in editing, i would be glad if you improve midas support.

Posted by ahmet on February 26, 2004 at 03:25 PM EST #

I've setup a <a href="http://demo.raibledesigns.com/roller">demo instance</a> of Roller so folks can checkout the new UI. This way, hopefully we can get feedback before it's released. <br /><br /> I'll try to update it (from CVS) as requested.

Posted by Matt Raible on February 27, 2004 at 05:15 PM EST #

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