New WYSIWYG Editor

As some of you may have noticed, there is now a new WYSIWYG editor for GameSpot. We received a lot of positive feedback about this editor from FilmSpot so now we're rolling it out here.

A couple of major features that you should like, there are more, but that will be part of today's 'announcement':

1) There is a paste but for Word documents. This button will take the text you copied from Word and format it closer to the html rules we have. While its not perfect, its pretty darn good. Ctrl-V (for Windows users) works automatically in IE and okay in FireFox. Yes, no more FireFox warnings.

2) It works 'pretty good' for Safari and Opera. Not everything works in Safari and Opera, but I believe we've hidden the features that don't and got rid of the warning messages. If you have problems with these browsers, let us know in the tech support forum.

3) It fixes a lot of the malformed html errors. In other words, you should get fewer messages about your HTML not being well-formed.

4) Spell check works better. The spell check feature works faster and with better results.

5) Search and Replace. Name says it all. Personally, I love this feature as I'm always making the same typo over and over.

Like I said, there's more, but you'll have to wait for the official announcement later today to get the whole list.

Yes! I was waiting for this editor to be implemented here too. IMO, a lot cleaner and better than the old one. One question though, are we still going to see the HTML errors of the old editor or where this fixed in this new one?Gallego

I dont think I have ever used the WYSIWYG editor...ever, not even since the lithium days... Its just slower loading and IMO, its slower and more clunky to click buttons and go through GUI just to post a picture rather than typing some code.ice_radon

If you scroll down the page in 'prefs' and go to 'Forums', the editor is moved.Cyrax-Sektor

My only real issue with this is that Ctrl+V brings up that paste from Word thing in Firefox, when I just want to plainly paste. Just a slight annoyance.Paul_06

This is due to a security rule within Firefox. It used to give most users a warning dialog and wouldn't let them paste. :( Ctrl-Insert will bypass this popup.Teivan

[QUOTE="Paul_06"]My only real issue with this is that Ctrl+V brings up that paste from Word thing in Firefox, when I just want to plainly paste. Just a slight annoyance.Teivan

Very nice. It also does everything I want it to just fine in Opera. Better than the last one, even, as features like smilies didn't work for Opera on the old one. I like some of the new features as well, particulalry the fullscreen mode, which could come in handy for writing long posts.     

:?..it takes even longer to load now...i'm glad i dnt plan on using it...but now, in prefs, if you're not using the editor you get a rather small box and have to scroll up and down to see all of it...i much prefered it as a plain box, having to scroll up and down for such a simple sig really isn't a welcome change....robbristow

Here's one thing:

When I try to close the "Insert/edit Image" window before it actually loads, I get left with this:

This white rectangle blocks me to see anything written behind it. I could keep writing, but whatever is behind it, I can't see it (even if I write it later). The cursor blink is there and keeps moving as I write, but letter are hidden behind the rectangle. This can be very annoying, as you have to reload the page if you want to write a longer text.

If I let the window load completely, I can continue to write normally, obviously.

You should provide an option for people to use the older editor if they prefer.

After inserting a link once, the Update and Cancel buttons in the "Insert/edit link" dialog won't remove the dialog box upon subsequent uses of the dialog.

Yea i like how the editor is a lot bigger , with more fuctions.... 

Mine is having a bit longer of a load time.  It's not huge, but noticeable. 

I also appreciate you adding "unlink" function as it is a lot easier for me than manually editing out the code, especially for certain projects I do.

The spell check is tons faster!  It does not always apear to be correcting my misspelled words, though.

I also like that when editing our HTML it opens in a WordPad type thing.  Much easier for me to fix everything.

Also, for tose wanting to know how to create a table, you can right click and just click "Inserts a new table".  You can then create it to your desired dimensions.  This is how it works in Internet Explorer, at least. 

[QUOTE="robbristow"]:?..it takes even longer to load now...i'm glad i dnt plan on using it...but now, in prefs, if you're not using the editor you get a rather small box and have to scroll up and down to see all of it...i much prefered it as a plain box, having to scroll up and down for such a simple sig really isn't a welcome change....Teivan

I like it! I like it a lot!!! It is so much more compatable with Firefox than the old one and actually puts paragraphs inside the proper tags instead of breaks.

Thanks GameSpot!

Tables are not working properly.  The table gets removed and the text is the only thing left.

This has been reported in Tech Support already.