New Feature: Better list editor behavior
Thursday, January 17th, 2008The original goal of the list editor on Grazr.com was to make it as simple as possible to create a reading list by dropping links to pages and feeds. Along the way we ended up building a pretty good outlining tool, although that was not our priority when we released version 2.0. Now that we are entering the cleanup phase of version 2.1 we decided to put in some more time polishing the rough edges in the editor. We now have a new version running that goes a long way towards that goal. We have improved the ability to move items around in deeply nested folders, and cleaned up the way text is handled when you are dropping or editing large blocks of text. We are still fighting to make text as clean looking as possible when it contains odd HTML entities. Doing all of this in a purely Javascript based tool is quite a challenge, especially when we want to fully support IE, Firefox, and Safari in OS X, Windows XP, and Vista. I think this new version of the editor is a big improvement, and I’d welcome any comments about what you think still needs to be done.