i know it’s silly of me to ask here, but can you guys give us a hopeful time frame as to when the 2.0 release will be. i know you’ve said summer, but when in summer? we’re already in summer…
Actually, more like, spring right now, right? But I am afraid there is no more precise schedule available at this point.
yeah it must be the weather, at the same just realized summer is still a month away :(
The video excited me, this site excites me and i can’t wait to deploy my dreams on it
Nice preview - glad to see some news on the feature front.
Just to double down on a couple FRs:
Good integration with publish form - definitely the biggest hole in the current 1.x lineage.
Good filters/file management for large amounts of files.
Access locks for files (integration with member module) - this file is only downloadable by groups 1,2,3 etc.
Possibly some way to not have HTML in the publish area when you add a file (that’s probably going to far)?
It looks nice but it brings up more questions than it answers almost!
Not so good for your eyes though that combination so be careful.
You are not the first person I’ve heard say that. But as far as I can tell there is no evidence that its actually true. I even asked my eye doctor once (because I am near sighted) and he told me that he didn’t think it made much difference as long as the text was crisp enough.
Has anyone ever seen an article that refers to some real medical evidence that this is the case? I’d seriously like to see it as I’ve always wondered after being told so many times that it was bad.
Jamie (Who is sorry for derailing the conversation)
Do you have a plugin that will take content from your weblog and output a downloadable, fully formatted Word document, complete with all layout features, embedded audio and video, notations, etc.?
First i read that this is ment to show up to frontend user and i was in heaven =)
Then i came down to earth and noticed that this one was for managing files. heh.
I even started my own brainstorm what kind of thumbs i make to users if there is donwloadable pdf:s, is the embedded videoplayer easy to make look like i do etc. =)
As noted above by stinhambo, I would also like to cast my vote for a file-upload progress bar. When uploading large files, such as MP3s, videos, PDFs, or zip files, the standard upload form is disconcerting when sitting on a slow connection.
You are probably already familiar with a few approaches, but good examples of this are SwfUpload (http://swfupload.org) and jQuery’s UI Uploader (http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Upload).
Not so good for your eyes though that combination so be careful.
You are not the first person I’ve heard say that. But as far as I can tell there is no evidence that its actually true. I even asked my eye doctor once (because I am near sighted) and he told me that he didn’t think it made much difference as long as the text was crisp enough.
Has anyone ever seen an article that refers to some real medical evidence that this is the case? I’d seriously like to see it as I’ve always wondered after being told so many times that it was bad.
Some people are more sensitive to contrast and it causes the eye muscles to contract. Much like turning a light on when waking up in the middle of the night…
I too am thrilled to get these lovely peeks into what’s coming, but disappointed that these aren’t being captioned.
I probably could use some of that information that’s being shared verbally so I can tell clients what to expect or start planning some of the changes I’ll make to client sites once this new version comes out.
You don’t have to caption EVERYTHING, just anything essential that’s not obvious on the screen, a little bit of floating text or something to say stuff like “you’ll be able to customize this part” or whatever. It’d help us… *sob* poor disabled deaf folk. *another sob for extra measure* Did that work?
Unless you’re basically regurgitating what is obvious on the screen, then I’ll stop complaining.
With regard to any type of File Upload (whether it be image, PDF, doc etc etc), will you be including the option to add additional metadata for each item? I can see where being able to render a meaningful title and description/caption for a file or image would be excellent. It would mean <img> alt attributes could be rendered correctly, not to mention not having to have additional fields in a field set for title and description for files.
No, there is no release date, but you can be sure it will be announced in the forum and on the website. Last time I checked, by the way, “summer” started on June 20. Even so, nobody said “beginning of summer”, so that gives us a certain time frame. We are commited to releaseing software that works the fist time around, and do not release software before it’s ready. Being held to relase dates (“But you said ...”) is one of the chief reasons we are reluctant to give any in the first place.
I totally hear what Ingmar (and the rest of the dev team) are saying on this one. Just take a look in this country (UK) at Terminal 5. They gave an opening date and then when it did actually open on that day just look at all the problems there. They had £4.3 Billion pounds to work with as well!!!
I would rather wait and get something that works 100% rather than something which is going to cost me both time and money with me trying to fix problems on a clients site and they then ask me why I am using software which is buggy. (Disclaimer - I am not saying that ExpressionEngine is buggy, rather that if the dev team and whole company are rushed then it could possibly end up that way)
I know that it won’t end up buggy though and that is simply due to the fantastic developer team and the great support team at EllisLab.
Steven’s got a great idea with S3… That would REALLY make EE a killer app. It doesn’t seem terribly difficult to work with S3 and the benefits for scalability are pretty huge.
BTW, another way to get at S3 and thumbnailing is to include operations that run after something is uploaded. Solspace made me a killer app called ‘PreParse’ which runs my thumbnail routines after an entry is processed… But something like that could easily be integrated in the upload tool…
