Deleting comments, auto-resizing of images, subscribing to RSS and login failure notifications.
No long opening speech today. Let’s get right into this week’s news.
Login notifications
Entering a site and not getting nowhere, ’cause the failwhale’s little brother won’t let you? Now what is wrong? From now on, you’ll get a specific answer to that question. Logging in to doingText, 3 possible mistakes can occurr. Either the account is not yet activated, the login (user name)/ email address is unknown or the password is wrong. So you exactly know what’s going on and what to do in the next step.
RSS feed
Subscribing to the RSS feed is now as easy as easy can be. In the header of a discussion you find the RSS symbol. Put the link to your feed reader and get informed on all the comments and edits to a discussion.
Auto-resize of images
So far, inserting large images led to the phenomenon that the images exceeded the discussion frames. And yes, that looked kinda awkward. Now images are automatically adjusted to fit the size of the discussion.
Textile
At this point on or another might need a little recollection of what Textile is about. The basics are to find in our guides. If you’re already used to wikis, Textile will be very familiar to you. If not, the don’t worry. Textile is really simple.
A few words ahead: Textile is a markup language used here in doingText to structure text passages on a minor level - just insofar as it is needed to talk about a text comfortably. We have already introduced it in our blog some weeks ago and here’s the link to our Guides.
There’s 2 steps: First, add .textile to the discussion title up in the header. For example “Films of the Week.textile”.
Second, use the Textile tags. Here are a few examples:
For bold phrases write *bold phrase*.
- For bulleted lists write
- * Point a
- * Point whatever
Images, to come back to this, can be inserted by adding exclamation marks around the URL of the images: !imageurl!.
If you happen to find any tags not working, please don’t give up. Just write me an email to katrin [at] doingtext.com or use the Feedback button on the right to let us know.
Deleting comments
There have been requests for being able to delete single comments. This is now possible for comments you created yourself. Furtheron, the discussion owner can delete all comments. That way you can keep your comments balloon as cleaerly arranged informative as you wish to.
iPhone screenshot
We just love it! So yeah, here’s a picture of the read-only iPhone and iPod touch interface. And, by the way, there’s no extra URL or so needed. The interface loads automatically when entering doingtext.com via iPhone or iPod touch.
(thanks to iPhoney)
January 4th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
“First, add .textile to the discussion title up in the header. For example “Films of the Week.textile”” ? Sorry guys, that is just not good. Why would you want to put the text encoding - after all it comes down to it? - into the text name? Can I not just start a text with a name “This is a text that’s name ends in .textile”? This is just awkward, and the only thing it saves you is one little control in your user interface.
I would be glad to get rid of all file extensions on my desktop machines. Having to use something on the web is just soooo… 80iesh.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
i actually agree. this whole text formatting thing is something that we created really quickly in order to get doingtext out, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to stay like this. stay tuned.