The video from EllisLab featuring the new EE rich text editor is making the rounds and people are starting to chime in on what it means and how they see this playing out vis á vis third party add-ons.
I don’t think it does according to what we see in the video but I’m not sure if that’s planned or not.
What’s your reaction to this? Tweet EE Insider or hashtag your thoughts with #eecms and we’ll find it.
Last night in an email announcement, EllisLab pulled back the curtain on their new rich text editor. In a short preview video they give a look at some of the editor’s capabilities.
ExpressionEngine 2.5 Preview, the Rich Text Editor from EllisLab, Inc. on Vimeo.
Until I actually use this thing I can’t really comment much on it. Demos of software are different than actually using them. That being said it does look like this editor will be a nice default for ExpressionEngine and certainly has been a missing piece for a long time. Does it replace other third party editors like Wygwam? I don’t think so. If only for the lack of “Paste from Word.”
My full comment and review will be reserved for whenever it is I can use the editor myself. Until then, be sure to watch the video and leave your comment here about what you think (EllisLab closed comments on the video page).
EllisLab released a new build (20092011) of ExpressionEngine 1.6.7, which included more than a dozen bug fixes and other tweaks. A few highlights:
* Modified Super Admin group on install to have a value of ‘y’ in the ‘include_in_authorlist’ database column (no functional change).
* Made internal improvements to contact form to help prevent abuse by spammers.
* Removed deprecated tags <u> and <strike> from HTML formatting buttons, adding <del> (does not affect existing button settings on the Publish page)
It’s always a good idea to run the latest build, so if you can, update your sites.
EllisLab may be working on EE 2.0 but yesterday they signaled (again) that they have no intentions of neglecting the EE 1.6.x branch. They released version 1.6.7, which they’ve described as a “security and maintenance release” in their announcement blog post.
We want all of our users to know that we’re committed to continuing to support 1.x even as our efforts are thrust fully into 2.0. ExpressionEngine 1.x is a platform you can continue to use and rely on now and in the future.
So, are there any goodies in this release?
For developers there are two new hooks for the weblog entries: weblog_entries_query_result and weblog_entries_row. So, what they do? Both allow you previously unavailable access to hook into the weblog entries tag pair. The first hook gives you complete access to the entire query object to do with as you please and the second hook lets you alter each entry’s data. I haven’t yet played around with the new hooks, but if you have, please post a comment with any initial thoughts or ideas how you think these new hooks will be helpful to EE developers.
Among various bug fixes that you can read through in the Release Notes, there is also a nice addition of the {parent_id} tag for categories, so you can easily get the parent of any category.
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