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Friday, 13 January 2006

NEW EDITOR - BETA
We got so many props for the photo manager, we went ahead and integrated it into our weblog editor!

Check out all this photo action in the new editor:
- Multiple photo uploads - right inside the editor!
- "Filmstrip" view and title/date sorts for browsing your photos - makes it easy to find the one you want
- Photo border controls - now you can easily choose colored borders for each of your photos
Also, for those who don't want photos to be clickable, we added a new checkbox, "don't link photo."

Janet just finished programming the new editor and put it on our beta site for testing:

http://editor.xanga.com/private/editor.aspxhttp://editor.xanga.com/private/editor.aspx

Please check it out and let us know what you think!

Chinese language support: the new editor should support Chinese (and other languages that require non-English encoding)... if you're seeing random symbols in your editor, you may just need to update your language settings:

http://help.xanga.com/foreignsymbols.htm

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cool =)
- 1/13/2006 5:19 PM
- mygollymissholly (message)
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That's so cool!

AWESOME job!

Lavina
- 1/13/2006 5:21 PM
- untamed_beauty@dollarish (message)
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makes life easier
- 1/13/2006 5:21 PM
- Hummer518 (message)
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why are photo names are hashed into nonsense instead of preserving the image names? it's pretty annoying
- 1/13/2006 5:28 PM
- tehgimp (message)
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ooooo...nice...
- 1/13/2006 5:33 PM
- crosswarrior (message)
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Looks nice
- 1/13/2006 5:36 PM
- julieannie (message)
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i prefer the simplicity of the regular editor. actually, i kinda liked it when the "pic" button just popped up a box for you to type in the location of an externally hosted image, since i don't use xanga's picture manager.

and why do you add target="_new" to all the links? it's annoying. if i wanted the link to open in a new window, i'd specify so myself.

Cheers!
- 1/13/2006 5:36 PM
- Crimson_Zephyr (message)
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It still doesn't work on opera....

http://www.opera.com/

I posted this promblem on one of you xanga peoples sites...Idk..If you can get it to work I'd be thrilled
Thanks
Amy
- 1/13/2006 5:38 PM
- See_Poppy_ramble (message)
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So far ... I love it. I know, you rarely hear that out of me, but it's great. I especially like that we can view the photos that are already uploaded while choosing them and the ability to make the photos unclickable.

*thumbs up*
- 1/13/2006 5:43 PM
- soNOTcool (message)
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*high five*
- 1/13/2006 5:47 PM
- thats_so_rylee (message)
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It takes a bit of time to load, but it should be okay once it all loads once, right?
- 1/13/2006 5:50 PM
- Aquintesce (message)
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haha why are you guys so awesome?
- 1/13/2006 5:54 PM
- junshien (message)
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I like the idea that we can view the photos because it rarely worked for me before with the old xanga box...but I still have at least a 5 to 10 second delay when it loads... I was hoping it would speed things up....
- 1/13/2006 5:56 PM
- xqueentinax (message)
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Photo Manager still doesn't work for Safari. No WYSIWYG either.

So yay for integrated features which are buggy.
- 1/13/2006 5:57 PM
- HomerTheBrave (message)
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Nice!
- 1/13/2006 6:00 PM
- flutieman07 (message)
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excellent, the more stuff that's integrated w/ the dash, the more i'll use it. i switched back to classic for now b/c of the annoying target="_blank" behavior and all the links to legacy pages. i like one window to do it all, not lots of new windows popping up.

thx for adding the ability to add photos via url. the new dash-style editor's tight. janet makes me swoon.
- 1/13/2006 6:03 PM
- capt_m3110w (message)
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harharhar thats so awesome! Thinking about xanga advancing in features is just like xanga advacing like the NASA SPACE Program. Whats next? a feature where you can punch other xangans that leave rude comments via the internet. Now i can seperate my photos in 3 catergorys which is porn, porn and porn. Just kidding! of course just random photos
- 1/13/2006 6:03 PM
- DisBoiRichyard (message)
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are you freaking serious about photo border!!!???!!?!? now my photos will look freaking professional! all those photographer nerds have borders around there pictures, now i can have them too! with an ease of a click!
- 1/13/2006 6:05 PM
- DisBoiRichyard (message)
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Interesting, and I see Xanga is keeping with the style introduced with the dash. I'm wondering now, will you be modifying the default Xanga layouts for the blogs to match this scheme as well?
- 1/13/2006 6:11 PM
- e_Halcyon (message)
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definitely liking it. keep up the good work annat.
- 1/13/2006 6:30 PM
- FalknerIsFalkner (message)
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OK, now THAT rocks! Finally uploading and selecting several pics will not take half a day to get into a post. Now, what about the other things we have been promised...like more than one Protected Post list to switch between, and having the profile pictures rotate?? AND can we PLEASE have a way to stay OUT of webcrawler searches of our sites...since your fixes disabled the script that used to work???
- 1/13/2006 6:33 PM
- moniet (message)
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a very visually appealing and useful upgrade
congrats on a job well done
- 1/13/2006 6:37 PM
- DavidGLiu (message)
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Lookin good!
- 1/13/2006 6:38 PM
- E3MW (message)
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u guys are soooo great! this is by far the best one, for me at least hhehehehe...
- 1/13/2006 6:39 PM
- dhess (message)
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I love it - not least because it also works with Firefox! When it was last updated, I had to keep switching off the rich text mode . Thank you!
- 1/13/2006 6:55 PM
- apocalyptic_mud (message)
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