As you may have noticed, there is a new editor, TinyMCE, for posting messages to the forum.
This should be a big improvement over the old one. If you’re not seeing anything new, then use CTRL+R or the F5 key to force your browser to refresh it’s cache.
Currently I have the buttons for emoticons (smileys) and images disabled as I need to make some adjustments to them. I hope to have them enabled soon.
Please let me know what you think about it.
Well, it’s different. I like some, don’t like change, until I’m used to it. This seems to work faster. FYI I am using Firefox. Before, it would take about 10-20 seconds before I could type a post.
Be glad to see the emoticons return, too. Keep up the good work, David.
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Dave,
It seems to be a bit faster, and a bit touchier when typing, overall. Will be happy to see the emoticons back; I guess we will all adapt to this.
Brian
Gee, when I saw this topic heading I thought you meant a new Editor like the new associate Editors, and thought “boy is he going to take a ribbing with a nickname like TinyMCE…”
I like how the font size now shows the corresponding point size. Miss the emoticons, but I remember how to do most of them with simple text! 
Hi Dave,
It’s not bad, but I miss the button for adding links. I know how to code HTML, so I’ve used that feature, but the other way was a bit easier.
I’m also a bit annoyed that it automatically sets the line spacing and puts a non-breaking space at the beginning of each paragraph.
Regards,
Are you not seeing the button for adding links? 
Like the previous one, you also have to highlight the text you want to use as a link. When you don’t have any text highlighted, you should still see the button but it will appear “faded”.
It’s actually using
paragraph tags for spacing. You can use SHIFT+Enter to start a new line w/o the paragraph.
Hi Dave,
Nope, I didn’t see the button for adding links. It was faded. blush
Thanks also for telling me about the shift-enter to add soft returns. I should have guessed that would work.
However, I do appreciate the HTML option. That means I can (maybe) do things like:
| add | a | table |
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Adding images should work pretty well too
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Regards,
That’s interesting. My table shows up just fine in the preview, with a border, but not in the actual post.
I’m using Firefox 1.5.something in Windows XP.
Regards,
Now you didn’t think just because we have an HTML button that you could use whatever HTML you wanted to. [;)]
In the forum config, there’s a list of designated html elements and attributes that users are allowed to include within their posts. The border attribute wasn’t in that list. It is now.
| Cell 1 | Cell 2 |
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Seems to work OK, but bring back the Emoticons.
Regards, Rick
Excellent, Dave. Thanks. 
On weekends he works as a DJ at local clubs.
“Ladies and gentleman, put your hands together for the styrene stylings of TinyMCE!!!”
Go Tiny! Go Tiny! Go Tiny!
The editor works great David- thanks! I think I used it before in developing a website for a client- it looks like what we used…
The client loved it. We showed them the editing interface and they said “Oh- it’s Word!” LOL
Dave… If I try to use the link buttopn it say a pop-up blocling id stoppingthe funtionality and to trun off the blocker for this site. How in heck do I do that?
hi dave-- as far as the new editor goes, honestly, it seems fine ,but so did the old one-- i am on a ‘high speed’ cable link (or so i’m told–lol) and have not experienced some of the lag that some of the other folks mentioned— i do have a problem though— since i had to to a system recovery on my computer, i have had problems with post responces being forwarded to me-- Amanda Bothe helped me out and it worked for a day or so – not working any more:(–you helped me once before-- my personal files were all screwed up-- totally my fault---- any chance you or Amanda could dig through my user files and find what is wrong?-- I am sorry to be a pain in the butt-- i can’t seem to fix it on my end---- sorry i got off topic-- i am just a little frustrated-- thanks for a great forum and any help you can give:)— treadwell-- tgcricu@yahoo.com
All well and good, but …
Are we going to get the IMAGE button back? If not, why not?
Oh yeah let me be the first to DITTO (close your eyes and imagine the smiley here) that one.
Well it told me that I can’t copy and paste with Firefox. Why’s that? Other than that so far so good.
This new format is for the birds ! What was wrong with the old system? Its getting more irritating . Can you pull the plug on this thing and go back to the old . I have a dial up service and know its slower than before the switch . AARRRGGHH!!!
So irritating in fact, that Smellquack has started talking in pirate.
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Well hows things Patton ?