[wp-hackers] Re: [wp-svn] [4349] trunk: Some UI cleanups, changes, and various miscellany.

[Doug Stewart]

On 10/9/06, Mark Jaquith <mark.wordpress at txfx.net> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2006, at 6:40 PM, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>
> > I was removing the headings entirely as they seemed a bit
> > redundant. I'm not crazy about how the preview works currently, but
> > I haven't figured out the best way to improve it.
>
> You forgot to remove it from the Page editor:
> http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6746/wppageeditorpz1.png
>
> Agreed that the current preview isn't great.
>
> Here's an idea.  How about we add another tab above the Post
> textarea: "Preview"
>
> On clicking the tab, we could save the entry asynchronously, and then
> swap in an iframe (it'd need more height, but that's okay) with a
> preview of the entry.
>
> That'd also fix the issue of the preview loading every time you edit
> an entry, which slows you down a bit.


Why not use Owen's "Kill Preview"?
http://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/Kill+Preview

-Doug

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