Preview button

[Jimishorts]

Where’s the ’preview’ button gone @GrandOldTeam and is it with the Arteta money?

This place is going right down the pan.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Yeah.

The preview function is pointless now really given the preview is in effect realtime in the editor.

What is there to preview that isn't in the message box?

To answer this, tweets are probably the only thing as far as I can see.

They look like this in the message box;



But like this in preview;

 

[GrandOldTeam]

ok can sort a picture now and yes I’d always preview an email before sending , mostly became my spelling is horrendous maybe it’s just me . Thanks @GrandOldTeam for taking time to sort things I feel like a mix of @roydo and @Joey66 here.

What email client allows you to click 'preview' and see an email any differently to how it looks realtime?

 

[Jimishorts]

Using safari on iPad . Click the preview button (page and spyglass) and it just changes the colour.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Using safari on iPad . Click the preview button (page and spyglass) and it just changes the colour.View attachment 106861View attachment 106862View attachment 106862View attachment 106862View attachment 106863

That's right?

What do you expect to happen when you click on preview?

 

[Jimishorts]

Don’t worry . Your right I’ll live with it.

 

[Jimishorts]

Great site btw,

 

[GrandOldTeam]

We upgraded the forum software from 2 to 2.2

As part of this upgrade, they forum software developer has "improved" the message editor.

With regards to the preview button, they explain the below;

The preview in 2.2 works exactly the same as it did in 2.0 - it renders the post as it will appear once submitted.

It just does it in the same editor window rather than a separate panel.

So basically, the difference now is the preview button shows you the preview in the same window rather than on a separate panel.

I personally think the preview button is now pointless (there's actually an option now to turn it off), because the post in the message box is now pretty much identical to what the post will be.

The only thing I can see so far that isn't shown in the message box is when you copy and paste a tweet. If you do that, you can click preview to actually see the tweet

 

[Jimishorts]

Just the same

viva 2.2.

 

[peteblue]

ok can sort a picture now and yes I’d always preview an email before sending , mostly became my spelling is horrendous maybe it’s just me . Thanks @GrandOldTeam for taking time to sort things I feel like a mix of @roydo and @Joey66 here.

Joedo....

 

[Zezti]

Main use of it for me is to check embeds work properly. Twitter, youtube, etc

Kind of weird they've added an unnecessary step; you have to click preview to see if the embed works, and then click it again to go back to the editor if you need to change anything.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Main use of it for me is to check embeds work properly. Twitter, youtube, etc

Kind of weird they've added an unnecessary step; you have to click preview to see if the embed works, and then click it again to go back to the editor if you need to change anything.

That's now the only reason as far as I can tell. I expect that'll go soon as embeds will one day show realtime.

They also argue they actually removed a step. Instead of a preview opening another tab, it now opens in the same editor.

 

[Khalekan]

The magnifying glass thing lad. Press it then try and type.

It’s going to confuse the drunks and the elderly that.

I qualify on both counts so I am doubly confused

 

[The binman chronicles]

Preview button? Probably got rid of it because too often the starting line up had Sigurdsson and Iwobi in it...

 

[Methuselah]

I have never used the Preview button. I just try and get it right first time.

 

[tommye]

Only ever used the preview button to check the white text had worked it did