Faster preview
Posted July 7th, 2009 by andrewAs part of a little long-term project, we’ve wrapped up porting our custom Textile engine from python to javascript.
What does that mean? It means that the previews you see will be much, much faster to render, and it means that during peak times, Fluther should be much more nimble. We’ve also added a few new flourishes (like making vulgar fractions much more pretty — try typing in 1/4).
We’ll be releasing the codebase for the javascript side of this very soon (once I’m able to clean it up a bit).
In the meantime, if you happen to see any discrepancies between what you see in your preview and what posts on the page, let me know. There might be a few edge cases we weren’t able to suss out.
On to more features!
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July 7th, 2009 at 9:49 am
My previews aren’t working at all, currently. Neither is the auto-complete feature for typing usernames. And when I submit a comment, it reloads the page.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:57 am
@Ivan: are you using IE8?
July 7th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
No. Everything works now for some reason.
July 7th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Looks great and is much faster!
July 8th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
My previews don’t turn the @name red like they used to, and when I try to put quotes around sentences, they turn red. Otherwise, thanks for the fine job.
July 8th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I found a bug. If I add a link at the end of a sentence and place a period at the end of the link it doesn’t show in the preview. But it gets posted.
This used to work fine.
I’m talking about something like:
Hello “World”:http://whatever.com/whatever.png.
The period at the and doesn’t show in preview.
July 9th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Thanks all for catching some of the crappy JS regex bugs.
If you can handle the preview scrweing up, you can still post normally, since the code on our end hasn’t changed.
July 12th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Nice to see all the improvements! There’s still a preview bug,, though–now dahes in text preview as strikeout.
Sorry, but I don’t like the automatic conversion of fractions. Right after that happened, I made mention of 3/4 time in reference to music, and it was converted to a case fraction. It looked absurd. Anyway, they are too small and hard to read for some of us with older eyes. I don’t want quantities in posted recipes to appear any smaller than they already do. Please don’t be like Microsoft and make all my decisions for me. The first thing I do every time I install a new version of Word is to turn off all the automatic styling so I can manage it myself. To you it’s a flourish, to me it’s a loss of options.
July 14th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
My previews aren’t working at all, and I’m the queen of typos, this does not bode well for me!
July 14th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Tooltips don’t work in preview, But they work in the post.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:03 am
Tooltips haven’t been added to preview… I’m not sure if we’ll do that.