Question K 1.0.10 - changed boardcode behaviour - URL markup

G'day everyone and it's fantastic news about the new version of Kunena 1.0.10 (when it becomes a public, stable release). In the meantime we have become accustomed to the new version through its implementation here at www.kunena.com .

One of the main differences that users will see is the new boardcode toolbar. For most people who are already familiar with internet discussion forums, using the Kunena boardcode should not be a difficult learning experience. Basically, if you want to "markup" your text, you select it with your mouse and click the appropriate "button" from the toolbar. For example, if you want to bold your text, you drag your mouse across the words of text that you want to bold and then click the B "button". The same process holds true for italicising, underlining, strike-thru, subscript, superscript, etc. moving left-to-right along the items on the toolbar.

There is, however, a very different behaviour involving three of last four tools: image insertion, URL and video insertion. To complicate matters further, the colour selection tool (which has been considerably extended) operates a little differently from everything else.

Let me illustrate the matter with a practical example. Suppose I want create the following boardcode: so that it wopuld appear like this: Kunena

Previously, before Kunena 1.0.10, I would select/highlight the text, click the URL insertion button and then edit the URL "tags". Perhaps this was a bit clumsy but at the very least it created the URL tags! With K 1.0.10, if you type your text first, then select it and then press the URL button, nothing appears to happen. :huh: It took me a few moments before I realised that the method for inserting hyperlinks had completely changed.

While it's quite possible to literally type the BBcode tags oneself, most of the time we take the easy way out and use the buttons.

I'm not complaining - and it's not a defect - but I wish to point out that the changed behaviour is different and inconsistent with the "select text + press toolbar button" approach and that it will cause a few problems with those of us who habitually have used this method previously.

Thanks

sozz

Thank you for your feedback.

Editor in Kunena 1.0.10 is Rolands Editor hack with some relatively small changes in it. Now that you said it, I don't like this new behavior either, but I was willing to trade many existing bugs into few UI issues. It also saved me a lot of time and gave me opportunity to fix many other bugs.

Kunena 1.0.10 is our largest bug fix release ever. We got help from CB team and they were doing very good job! They pointed us hundreds of possible issues and over 50 real bugs. It took about 3 weeks for me to fix all of them. All of the fixes will be also in Kunena 1.5, but I need to recover few days because of I've not slept much lately.

Thank you, Matias, and amen to all you've written!

I thoroughly agree with your approach: to produce a stable and substantially improved, defect-free version of Kunena as the basis for moving ahead with future versions that will be J! 1.5 "native". I also agree that trade-offs - functionality vs. durability - often have to be made.

I'm looking forward to taking my web forum to K 1.0.10. I'm not particularly enthused about having to explain to my users that the behaviour has changed ... and I'll have to prepare them for the change. I wanted to take this opportunity to both thank you for your tireless efforts to improve the product as well as to warn others about what to expect.

Thanks again. Cheers, mate