Steemit Condenser Contributions: Side by side editor/preview panes

quochuy in HiveDevs • 5 years ago

Context

When editing a new blog post on Steemit.com, the layout is a bit annoying with the text editor at the top and the preview at the bottom. It makes editing posts difficult because you have to keep scrolling up and down to see the preview and go back typing.

@stoodkev has introduced a side-by-side editing / preview in his SteemPlus, Chrome extension, that modifies Steemit.com pages on-the-fly. However, the release of Communities has broken few features including the side-by-side editing. This was the trigger for me to finally have a look at it and implement a built-in feature.

Steemit Condenser Contributions

The work done

To achieve the layout I had to modify both the DOM and the CSS that controls the editor in order to re-arrange the layout and make it responsive (make it adapt to all screen sizes).

Here is the desktop version:
Side by side editing and preview

It also works in night mode:
Night mode side-by-side

In narrow screens, the preview pane behaviour is unchanged and will sit below the editor.

I also had to modify the files for the comment editor as they share the same editor logic. When creating a comment, there will be no side-by-side feature but there is a slight change in design as seen below:
Comment editor new look

Steemit Condenser Pull Request

This feature is not out yet, a pull request has been created:
https://github.com/steemit/condenser/pull/3722

Once approved and merged, it will be available in a future release by Steemit Inc.

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5 years ago in HiveDevs by quochuy

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pennsif 5 years ago

That's great. Thanks for this.

I was hoping this feature would make it through - it helps a lot when I am editing the long Steem News posts.

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quochuy 5 years ago

It’s being reviewed now, hopefully will get out soon

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pennsif 5 years ago

That's great.

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leesujin 5 years ago

that's so great. i don't know about IT but i think when you do it for Steemit, it's so useful. thank you so much.

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quochuy 5 years ago

Thanks

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nonameslefttouse 5 years ago

Will we have the option to choose between side-by-side view and top to bottom view?

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quochuy 5 years ago

If it gets approved and released and I get enough request for a toggle then I’ll add it. For now it will display side by side if it has enough space else it will render top to bottom.

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nonameslefttouse 5 years ago

Sometimes I like to sit comfortably, far away from a screen hanging on the wall, as I prepare my posts. Might need a pair of binoculars if the words get any smaller. There's nothing worse than publishing a post, then noticing seven hours later, you wrote penis instead of pens.

if it has enough space else it will render top to bottom.

So I could simply hold ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel within the browser, zooming in and out, and that would place the preview below? If that's the case, that's all the toggle I need.

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quochuy 5 years ago

Hahahaha
Yes, zooming in would trigger it.
Also the font size has not changed. So even if it’s side by side it should be the same.

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nonameslefttouse 5 years ago

Alright @quochuy. Thanks for taking the time to respond and also, keep up the good work.

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atma.love 5 years ago

Thanks @quochuy, it's sorely needed. One of the reasons i currently use steempeak instead.

Happy to have you here. Voted for you as witness.

Namaste
Atma

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quochuy 5 years ago

Thank you 😊

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asgarth 5 years ago

Good work ;)

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quochuy 5 years ago

Thanks mate

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mindtrap 5 years ago (edited)

Nice work. Although on my end it still doesn’t work side by side...maybe it is my screen? An observation. The search function atm seems broken. I mean one types a name and instead of being redirected to their profile, some random comments from 2 years back appear.

It would have been cool it it was upgraded like on the other front ends, with auto complete and working properly.

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quochuy 5 years ago

If I'm not wrong, this issue has already been raised with the dev team. I will follow up with them.

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quochuy 5 years ago

Regarding side-by-side, as mentioned at the bottom of the post, it's pending for approval by Steemit devs.

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mindtrap 5 years ago

Oops. Missed that

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murathe 5 years ago

Superb developments there, moving up and down just to have a view on what you've written down is a hectic. Glad seeing hopes of the request being merged and a later released on the next...

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