Some feature requests

feature request
#1

Loving sitecake!

A few feature requests:

  • Animated GIF support — it seems animated gifs are converted to different sizes and shows only the first image in the sequence. So perhaps animated gifs are not resized when inserted and are just scaled?
  • Emoji support
  • Touch/tablet support
#2

Thanks for the feature request list.

I will add it to our internal list, mayber I should make it public, why not.

Regarding Animated GIFs, I needed that for the demo page. So, I just uploaded gifs to images folder and added raw HTML from the toolbar

<img src="images/new-heading.gif" class="img-fluid">

Emoji support? Hm, how to do that? To embed emoji font with Sitecake?

Touch support is practically new Sitecake client for touch devices. Not a quick development, but much needed.

#3

For me, the emoji I typed into the text boxes got stripped out when I published, so less about supporting input of emoji but rather supporting them in text fields.

I understand that it might be difficult — Emoji can be tricky, especially with multi-byte ones and modifiers. I imagine it might be similar to supporting multi-byte languages like Chinese, Arabic, etc.

Oh, an additional request:

  • When clicking the publish button while editing a text field: move the focus from the text field to the button, then publish the current contents of the text field, preventing some lost changes I’ve had where I didn’t click outside of the text field first. (Clicking the publish button would normally change focus to the button, so hopefully this wouldn’t be too difficult.)
#4

I recreated emoji issue. They are visible in editor but dissapear after publish. Okay, I will add this to the bug list.

Publish button is not active until you leave text field editing. Sitecake assumes that you haven’t finished editing until you leave a text field.

#5

Don’t know if it’s easy, but another way of communicating the text editing thing is if the publish button is disabled (grayed out) when the user is currently editing a text box.

Then clicking outside the text box reactivates it. Might not work with other editing features… but that might be user-friendly and easier to implement?