A few points for possible improvement

[Louis]

Hello @David,

Hope you’re well.
Great to see Cwicly on one of your live sites!

Really enjoyed your presentation which has a lots of little nuggets

Thanks for taking the time to write down the things that have come up and you think could be improved.

@David

-Oft times when I click into a number box a “1” is inserted and the control is no longer in focus. Double clicking often gets in, but it is a bit awkward.

This is something I have experienced myself and have been wanting to look at closer. It definitely needs some adjustments made to it to allow the number scrubbing and input to work in tandem a bit more gracefully.

@David

The place where you create a new external style sheet you have to search for it. If possible, it would be nicer if the ones created showed in the list without needing to search.

Maybe automatically selecting the stylesheet when created is the way to go here as I can see an unnecessary action as you point out.

@David

You activate the external style sheet by clicking the red dot, but it is not obvious what that red dot means. I thought it meant I needed to save. A dot is used other places to indicate that a setting is applied and clicking the dot removes the setting. Perhaps there is another indicator?

This is a useful point.
I can understand the confusion with the dot as it is used to reset otherwise in almost every case. Will look at how we can move to something that’s less specialised (eye icon?)

@David

When you add a link wrapper it is disabled at start, but I think most times when someone adds a link they intend it to be active, so perhaps it could be active when created.

I do get caught in this also. We have been considering it, but want to make sure it doesn’t get enabled unnecessarily.

@David

When you duplicate an icon or an image you get duplicate IDs (I didn’t try other blocks).

Yes, duplication through the menu context is currently our last trouble causer. This is being reviewed currently as with page-specific rules, the way blocks identification is managed inside Cwicly will change and allow us to move away from having our custom copy/pasting logic, which in turn will remove all frustration with duplicate IDs and Classes.

@David

When you upload an image to the media library you can give it alt text. It appears that Cwicly includes that in the page source, but when in the editor and you go to settings for the Image block there is an input box for Image Alt that is blank. It would be nice to see the alt text in the editor if it exists.

Interesting point. The alt field in Cwicly is specifically meant to override (if wanted) the one provided and managed by the Media Library, which is why we leave it blank. I can understand the confusion this could create, maybe a hint with the alt from the media library (if it exists) is something to consider here.

@David

It could well be user error, and perhaps this goes away with the new class system, but I created a class with a 1 pixel border and the size set to specific pixels. When I applied that class to an image, the border was applied, but the size didn’t change. It stayed as auto / 100%, which is what the default was when it was added to the page.

This is because we apply the auto/100% by default on image blocks, although 1.2 fixes this by moving the defaults to a CSS class. So you shouldn’t experience this issue anymore.

Thanks again @David , have a great week-end!