Looks very nice.
Though the way it jumps around the text ticks me off a bit, STAND STILL!! lol
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you can pin it, with the little pin. or disbale that behaviour when calling... i think
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this is the sort of thing that SELLS your work to clients. they don’t care how vigorously you hum and smile while coding the extra features or how easy it is to template the site.
they run very fast and far away when they can’t use something that is as easy as facebook/google/flickr...
i showed a trimmed down, beautified and limited modx revo backend, laid out neatly for someone recently and their comment was: i think we will stick with pagelime
so there. in fact check out pagelime.com if you haven’t already. that is what the average small-medium site owner loves - simplicity, easy, easy, easy way of doing things. with modx revo we are still far from it, but moving fast.
so features like inline-editing, image upload & cropping/editing, repeating items on pages, etc. are very important to gain popularity. look at wordpress. its the simple, easy backend for site owners that made it popular mainly.
revo has some great things coming on roadmap, like customized manager frontpage etc. but also front-end editing needs to improve massively. i am sure there are a few devs who have done some commercial front end editors/features inhouse for their clients. would be nice to get something like that going public though..
lets make modx easier for end users people!
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Looks Ok this, backend save is an AJAX call, the repository thing looks interesting also it seems to suggest you could draw a revo resource tree in the front end, need to look at this more. Attached is a piccy of Aloha used in Frontpage rather than TinyMCE, I’ll raise a ticket on this for Frontpage integration, using this in its multiple instance mode would make the layout in the colorbox much better.
Use MODx, or the cat gets it!
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Yes, at the mo its based on a chunk thats actually a form thats submitted, we could bin this and use seperate divs for the title etc and use multiple instances of Aloha to edit each one, with AJAX, much nicer.
Use MODx, or the cat gets it!
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+1 for direct content editing on the page, whether implemented with Aloha or something else. That feature is the only reason I once considered Concrete5.
Jason